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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.

The Joy of God in Us: Why the Spirit Produces Happiness

The Joy of God in Us

Why the Spirit Produces Happiness

Why is the Holy Spirit so often connected to joy in Scripture? Because he is the Joy at the center of reality.

Some Kindness Stings: Why Love Uses Hard Words

Some Kindness Stings

Why Love Uses Hard Words

The most loving people do not delight in wounding others, but they are willing to, for the sake of real healing. They know that soft words can sometimes be cruel, and hard words kind.

The Strange Sounds of Praise: A Sufferer’s Introduction to the Psalms

The Strange Sounds of Praise

A Sufferer’s Introduction to the Psalms

Why do we love the psalms? In part because we know, deep down, that real worship sometimes means weeping.

Will I Trust God? Simple Prayer in a Desperate Moment

Will I Trust God?

Simple Prayer in a Desperate Moment

The power of a man who believed, in the face of the humanly impossible, has had a ripple effect that will touch every soul in heaven. Will you, like him, trust God?

What Does a Faith Crisis Feel Like?

What Does a Faith Crisis Feel Like?

For some Christians, common doubts build up over time to produce a serious faith crisis. How can we care for those who feel lost in the storm?

What Does ‘Deconstruction’ Even Mean?

What Does ‘Deconstruction’ Even Mean?

What some voices today mean by “deconstruction” is not what the word has meant — and it’s not what it means for all. So what does it mean?

The Light We Need to See: How Christ Dispels Spiritual Darkness

The Light We Need to See

How Christ Dispels Spiritual Darkness

The Light of the World shows us the way we should go, reveals what’s true about our spiritual surroundings, and gives us spiritual life.

Holy Distractions: When God Interrupts Our Productivity

Holy Distractions

When God Interrupts Our Productivity

Distractions take us away from more important work. Interruptions can be fresh callings from God. How do we tell the difference?

Parable of an Unhealthy Soul: Why ‘Faith’ Dies Without Action

Parable of an Unhealthy Soul

Why ‘Faith’ Dies Without Action

If the continual and costly effort of holiness feels like the enemy of our faith in Jesus, then it may not be Jesus we’re following.

A Father’s Good Pleasure

A Father’s Good Pleasure

A father has the distinct and rare gift of giving good gifts to his children because God loves to give good gifts to his.

He Is, He Was, He Will Be: Adoring the Alpha and Omega

He Is, He Was, He Will Be

Adoring the Alpha and Omega

Who is this baby born in Bethlehem? He is Alpha and Omega. He is the beginning and the end. He is the great I Am.

Our Tongues (and Fingers) of Fire: What Words Reveal About Us

Our Tongues (and Fingers) of Fire

What Words Reveal About Us

Some wear their hearts on their sleeve — but we all wear our hearts in our words. If you want to know the condition of your own heart, listen carefully to what you say.

Labor to Give (or Take) No Offense

Labor to Give (or Take) No Offense

The world and the church have been deeply fractured by controversies of various kinds, which makes now as good a time as ever to stand apart by our love for one another.

When Darkness Veils His Lovely Face

When Darkness Veils His Lovely Face

We store up God’s word in our hearts now, so that when the unthinkable happens and our lives begin to crumble, we still have somewhere safe to stand.

The Hardest Word to Obey

The Hardest Word to Obey

Love the Lord your God, and love your neighbor as yourself. Could any two commands be simpler and more beautiful, and yet so difficult to practice?

Laziness Ruins Happiness: What Makes Diligence a Virtue

Laziness Ruins Happiness

What Makes Diligence a Virtue

Diligence is not just about our self-discipline, our self-esteem, or our self-satisfaction. Diligence is about our joy in God.

Bible Memory Brings Reality to Life

Bible Memory Brings Reality to Life

For many, Bible memory conjures up feelings of futility, fear, and past failure, but Bible memory is about so much more.

Can Anything Mend Our Conflict? How Cynicism Dies in a Divided Church

Can Anything Mend Our Conflict?

How Cynicism Dies in a Divided Church

Many of us today need to learn what love means, and looks like, when we’re faced with a difficult, complex issue.

Lord, Where Is Your Faithfulness? How the Faithful Sing in Crisis

Lord, Where Is Your Faithfulness?

How the Faithful Sing in Crisis

In crisis moments, when we begin to doubt God and his promises, we discover just how precious psalms of lament can be.

Devote Yourself to Faithfulness: How to Cultivate a Quiet Virtue

Devote Yourself to Faithfulness

How to Cultivate a Quiet Virtue

To cultivate a life of faithfulness, we should follow David’s instruction to trust in the Lord, do good, and befriend faithfulness.

You Can’t Fake What You Love: How a Sentence Exposed and Delighted Me

You Can’t Fake What You Love

How a Sentence Exposed and Delighted Me

Pleasures never lie. We can lie about what we love, but what we love is what we love. Our pleasures always tell the truth.

Weakness May Be Your Greatest Strength

Weakness May Be Your Greatest Strength

If you want to know what talents God entrusted to you, look not only to your strengths, but to your weaknesses. Your greatest limitation may be your greatest gift.

My Times Are in Your Hand: Learning to Trust the Speed of God

My Times Are in Your Hand

Learning to Trust the Speed of God

Our sense of timing will rarely line up with God’s — and his timing is always wise, loving, and perfect.

I Lay My Life in Your Hands: How Faith Prays in the Dark

I Lay My Life in Your Hands

How Faith Prays in the Dark

Faith is displayed most, not when the clouds pass and the winds cease, but when we cling to the faithfulness of God in the middle of the storm.

A Man Among Men: Why Friendship Is Worth the Fight

A Man Among Men

Why Friendship Is Worth the Fight

It is no secret that many men have fewer friends as they age. It is also no secret that men need good friends as much as we ever have.

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