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Jon Bloom

Jon Bloom serves as teacher and cofounder of Desiring God. He is the author of four books, including Not by Sight and most recently True to His Word. He and his wife have five children and make their home in the Twin Cities.

We Are Far Too Easily Displeased

We Are Far Too Easily Displeased

Do all things without grumbling or disputing, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world. (Philippians 2:14–15) I…

Five Ways to Refresh the Saints in Your Life

When reading Paul’s letter to Philemon this week I saw a theme I hadn’t really seen before. This letter is an instruction on how to refresh the saints. Philemon was a refreshing person. When Paul thought about Philemon he thought…

Lay Aside the Weight of Discontentment

Lay Aside the Weight of Discontentment

I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance…

What to Neglect to Have a Rich Life

What to Neglect to Have a Rich Life

Time is short, so we have to choose between what to neglect and what to nourish. Paul helps us make the wise choice.

Jonathan: The Glory of Humbly Yielding Power

Dear Friends, Perhaps the only thing harder for prideful humans than humbly wielding power is humbly yielding power. And perhaps the most beautiful Old Testament example of this is Jonathan, who not only yielded the throne to David, but, as…

The Powerful Glory of Yielding Power

Perhaps the only thing harder for prideful humans than humbly wielding power is humbly yielding power. And the most beautiful Old Testament example of this is the way Jonathan yielded Israel’s throne to David. But as we see in 1…

How to Humbly Give and Receive Correction

How to Humbly Give and Receive Correction

Because we struggle with pride, correction can be difficult to give graciously — and even more difficult to receive graciously.

God’s Bright Design for Your Bitter Providences

God’s Bright Design for Your Bitter Providences

We often struggle to understand what God is doing in our difficult circumstances, but we can have confidence in his will for us — our sanctification.

Hope for the Battle with Intractable Weakness

We all have sin-infected weaknesses that are intractable. They are deeply woven into the fabric of who we are and are frequently exacerbated by our sinful responses to them. Inherent weaknesses are different from indwelling sin. Indwelling sin is evil…

Six Benefits of Ordinary Daily Devotions

Six Benefits of Ordinary Daily Devotions

It’s okay if there was no special spark in your Bible reading today. In fact, ordinary devotions are a good thing.

Lay Aside the Weight of Prideful Comparison

Lay Aside the Weight of Prideful Comparison

By the grace of God I am what I am. (1 Corinthians 15:10) God made you to be you. You have the body God gave you — with all its genetic capacities and limitations (Psalm 139:13). You were born at…

The Impoverishing Power of Financial Prosperity

The story of the rich young man in Mark 10 has a chilling message: earthly prosperity can make people spiritually destitute. “Teacher! Teacher, please wait!” Jesus and his disciples were just leaving town. They turned and saw a young man…

Rich Young Man: The Impoverishing Power of Financial Prosperity

Dear Friend, The story of the rich young man in Mark 10 has a chilling message: earthly prosperity can make people spiritually destitute. * * * “Teacher! Teacher, please wait!” Jesus and his disciples were just leaving town. They turned…

You Can Take Heart in Uncertainty

You Can Take Heart in Uncertainty

In times of uncertainty, Jesus does not want us to be governed by fear, but by faith.

Jesus Has Overcome the World

One thing the Bible is not is utopist about life in this world. It gets unfairly criticized for encouraging a pessimism that makes people passive about doing anything to improve things; people who are “too heavenly minded to be any…

Lay Aside the Weight of Fragmented Focus

Lay Aside the Weight of Fragmented Focus

Each of us has time and capacity from God for his call on our lives. We need a faith-empowered ruthlessness to say no to distractions.

How to Endure Common-to-Man Temptations

How to Endure Common-to-Man Temptations

The greatest weapon against common temptation is an unrelenting grip on uncommon promises.

How Jesus Exposed the Idol of Self-Glory

The love of our own glory is the greatest competitor with God in our hearts. And sometimes we cloak this idol in a pious disguise. In Matthew 21, Jesus exposed this idol in the hearts of a few men with…

Seven Ways to Pray for Your Heart

Seven Ways to Pray for Your Heart

Here are seven requests that start with the letter D to help you pray for your own heart.

Lay Aside the Weight of “Not Feeling Like It”

Lay Aside the Weight of “Not Feeling Like It”

Jesus calls us to endurance, not indulgence. Lay aside the weight of instant gratification, and run with faith the race he has set before you.

Watch Your Mouth

It is humbling to remember that as Christians we are still vulnerable to Satan’s deception. One moment we can speak glorious truth and the next moment destructive, satanic words. We must be on our guard, something Peter learned the hard…

Lay Aside the Weight of Restless Work

Lay Aside the Weight of Restless Work

Work hard and rest well. The latter is crucial for the former.

Lay Aside the Weight of Self-Preoccupation

Lay Aside the Weight of Self-Preoccupation

Self-preoccupation steals attention from the Christian’s only hope for change. Look to Jesus and he will satisfy your soul.

God Will Never, Ever Break His Promise

How might Isaac have explained to his young sons, Jacob and Esau, why God had commanded his father, Abraham, to offer him as a burnt offering (Genesis 22)? Eight year-old Esau sat on his bed-mat firing imaginary arrows in the…

Lay Aside the Weight of Sluggishness

And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end, so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit…

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