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Tony Reinke

Tony Reinke serves as Senior Teacher for Desiring God, host of the Ask Pastor John podcast, and author of Ask Pastor John: 750 Bible Answers to Life’s Most Important Questions (2024). He and his wife live in Phoenix.

12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You

12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You

Never offline, always within reach, we now wield in our hands a magic wand of technological power we have only begun to grasp. But it raises new enigmas, too. Never more connected, we seem to be growing more distant. Never more efficient, we have never been more distracted.

Instagram Generation: Four Ways Smartphone Cameras Are Changing Us

Instagram Generation

Four Ways Smartphone Cameras Are Changing Us

95 million more new images will be uploaded to Instagram today. Here are four ways the popular app is changing us.

Two Keys to Flourishing in the Digital Age

Two Keys to Flourishing in the Digital Age

We all seem to sense that, for good or bad, our smartphones are changing us, our habits, and our relationships.

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The Horror of Crucifixion

The Horror of Crucifixion

Studying the historical and physical realities of crucifixion shows how deplorable and inhumane that form of human extermination is.

How Calvinists Miss the Key to Happiness

How Calvinists Miss the Key to Happiness

The joy of Calvinism does not come mainly from knowing about God’s sovereignty, but from experiencing its sweetness in our hearts.

Suffering Opens a Door for the Gospel

Suffering Opens a Door for the Gospel

To suffer for the sake of Christ is to be positioned firmly within the sovereign will of our Father, often for new gospel witness.

The Fearful and Wonderful Art of Flirting

The Fearful and Wonderful Art of Flirting

Seven Warnings for the Digital Age

For all its potential dangers, and they are many, flirtation is a gift from God worth celebrating, protecting, and mastering.

The Lie We Keep Buying

The Lie We Keep Buying

Are You Materialistic Enough?

Materialism is the opiate of the people. It pacifies society on a mass scale, causing millions to ignore the God-sized hole in our souls.

Our Mother Who Art In Heaven?

Our Mother Who Art In Heaven?

In ‘The Shack,’ God the Father is played by a woman called Papa. What does the Bible have to say about using feminine titles for God?

Satan Wants to Blackmail You

Satan Wants to Blackmail You

Satan knows the chains of your spiritual bondage were broken at the cross. That’s why he’ll do everything he can to get you to forget it.

Are You Serious Enough About Happiness?

Are You Serious Enough About Happiness?

The laughter of fools undoubtedly makes the heart worse, but the deepest joy carries with it a pain and a longing that truly make the heart better.

How Do You Super Bowl?

How Do You Super Bowl?

Ideas for Navigating Controversial Ads

Sunday night, the Patriots and Falcons will shove each other around on synthetic grass for seven pounds of sterling silver. And millions will be watching.

Thirty Seconds Alone with God

Thirty Seconds Alone with God

The Effect of Our Phones on Prayer

The fight for prayer is fought in the 30-second gaps of your day. Who gets your attention: your smartphone or God?

The Secret to Digital Health

The Secret to Digital Health

If we try to define our identity and worth in likes, retweets, and followers, we will never find the joy and peace we desperately crave.

God Has Brought Me Safe Thus Far

God Has Brought Me Safe Thus Far

Amazing Grace for a New Year

This first week of the year affords many of us an opportunity to hit “pause” on our busyness and reflect, backward and forward, on our own lives.

Sing for Your Life

Sing for Your Life

Singing is one of the most immediate actions we can take to stoke our God-centered affections, and yet we grow careless of this neglected spiritual discipline.

Why Do We Envy the Wicked?

Why Do We Envy the Wicked?

Live for money, success, or comfort, and your hope will die as envy grows. God is the only treasure we cannot lose.

People Are Judging You Silently

People Are Judging You Silently

How Advertising Targets Our Insecurities

Advertising often taps into ours fears — of the unknown, of the future, of rejection, of loneliness. But followers of Christ have been freed from fear.

Top 16 Books of 2016

Top 16 Books of 2016

Each December, we publish a list of the best books published in the last year. Our list specifically focuses on the latest non-fiction Christian literature.

What Does It Mean to Be One with Christ?

What Does It Mean to Be One with Christ?

Our union with Christ is the most important thing about us, but most of us struggle, at least, to explain it. Sinclair Ferguson helps us understand what it means.

Does Christianity Make Life Harder?

Does Christianity Make Life Harder?

Does our glorious union with Christ merely sanctify our inevitable suffering, or does union with the suffering Christ bring new and deeper suffering into our lives?

In the Image of God We Trust

In the Image of God We Trust

Rethinking Race in Black-and-White America

Our race-torn society desperately needs to be know what it means to be made in the image of God. But too many Christians still have no idea.

Why Christians Love Books

Why Christians Love Books

A Brief History

Since the very beginning of the Church, Christians have always loved books. Here’s a brief history of why in five points.

God’s Agenda on Debate Night

God’s Agenda on Debate Night

With so many confused and discouraged about the political climate, God has made the way forward as clear as ever.

Every Knee Shall Bow? Our Glaring Need for Christian Sympathy

Every Knee Shall Bow?

Our Glaring Need for Christian Sympathy

In video after video, we have watched African Americans gunned down by police officers. The heartache and tension create dozens of difficult questions.

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