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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.

Seven Proofs That Joy Has Arrived in Christ

Seven Proofs That Joy Has Arrived in Christ

Jesus was almost euphoric. The most joy-filled outburst recorded in the life of Christ comes in Luke 10. Jesus sends out 72 of his followers to preach and heal, to serve sinners in word and deed. As they hustle off…

Get Alone Undistracted

Never Offline. The recent Time Magazine cover was intended to unnerve. The ominous reality is that computers are invading. They are getting strapped and stuck on us, moving into our glasses and our watches. Technology is “attempting to colonize our bodies.”

Distracting Ourselves to Death: An Interview with David Wells and Arthur Hunt

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Joy Designed

Left to ourselves, we are stuck in the mud of our *total depravity* — the centripetal wrapping of our affections around ourselves. We turn away from God for our joy, and choke ourselves with the slavery of self-glory.

God’s Beauty for the Bored, Busy, and Depressed

God’s Beauty for the Bored, Busy, and Depressed

God’s beauty awakens us from boredom, calms us in our busyness, and guides us through depression. Learn how to see God’s splendor in the everyday.

God’s Beauty for the Bored, Busy, and Depressed: An Interview with Dane Ortlund

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The World’s Joy-Tragedy

The World’s Joy-Tragedy

In his classic book Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis delivers a profound insight into the psychological engine that pulls along the drama of history. “All that we call human history — money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery…

Do We Live in the Matrix?

Do We Live in the Matrix?

Three Concise Interviews on Continuous Creation

The Matrix (1999) is a man-against-the-machine movie about the enslavement of the human race. When we enter the story, human brains have been hardwired together into one supercomputer, forming a single, conscious existence. The machines keep human bodies tranquilized in…

What We Learn from Nude Reality TV

G.K. Chesterton said public nudity is never practical, except on occasions that are entirely artificial. So nude reality TV, it seems, was unavoidable. Several current shows point the camera at the unclothed bodies of technically non-actors. “Buying Naked” (TLC) —…

The Van Gogh That Breaks My Heart

The Van Gogh That Breaks My Heart

Vincent van Gogh aspired to become a Calvinist pastor, like his dad. He pursued ministry in the Dutch Reformed Church until he hit a roadblock by failing his academic training, and then experienced what personal failure often breeds: disillusionment. He…

Six Ways Your Phone Is Changing You

Six Ways Your Phone Is Changing You

Consider the consequences of the smartphone. What is it doing to our minds when we are living with this constant distraction?

Six Ways Your iPhone Is Changing You: An Interview with David Wells and Douglas Groothius

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Is Feminine Modesty About Sex and Lust?

Is Feminine Modesty About Sex and Lust?

We assume feminine modesty has to do with sexual provocation, but is that what the Bible actually says?

Nepal’s Most Unlikely Church Planter

Nepal’s Most Unlikely Church Planter

Down the valley from Kathmandu, the ancient capital of Nepal, rests an even older city. In Bhaktapur, the timeworn traditions of Hinduism sink as deep into the dry soil as the white-capped Himalayan Mountains rise in the background. Bhaktapur looks…

The Joy Seeker’s Idol

The Joy Seeker’s Idol

We were made to enjoy God. That’s the message of Desiring God, and we believe it’s the message of the Bible. But if we’re honest, we don’t always feel joy. For most of our lives it seems we feel mediocre…

The Joy Seeker’s Dilemma: An Interview with Kyle Strobel

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The End of Books

The End of Books

Why is reading so important to Christianity? How is the Internet changing the way we read? How can we become better readers? These questions, and other critical topics about literacy, were addressed by Desiring God’s own Tony Reinke in an…

Captured by God’s Beauty

Captured by God’s Beauty

Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) has been called one of America’s greatest artists, an innovator who painted with ideas. “There are many reasons to regard Edwards as an original and venturesome thinker,” claims Michael McClymond in his landmark book The Theology of…

Captured by God’s Beauty: An Interview with Michael McClymond

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Have You Found What You’re Looking For? Easter Sunday

Have You Found What You’re Looking For?

Easter Sunday

Jesus went to the cross for joy: to buy joy, create joy, and offer joy. Have you found what you’re looking for?

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Behind the Scenes at Ask Pastor John

Behind the Scenes at Ask Pastor John

Ask Pastor John’s host, Tony Reinke, takes listeners through the ins and outs of the podcast and lists some of its top episodes.

20 Quotes on Loneliness

20 Quotes on Loneliness

All of us get lonely, even if we don’t admit it or talk about it. God offers hope through the gospel for those enduring the pain of loneliness.

Is Tim Keller Weak on Wrath?

Is Tim Keller Weak on Wrath?

I may have been the first blogger to accuse Tim Keller publicly for what I perceived to be his passive (and weak) view of God’s wrath in the wake of his book The Reason For God (2008). My response was…

I Know the Plans I Have for You

Jeremiah 29:11 is a precious verse to many: “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lᴏʀᴅ, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” So how can Gentile John…

Speaking Truth in Love

Speaking Truth in Love

God has called you to serve me, and me to serve you, by speaking the truth in love (Ephesians 4:15). This mutual ministry is what drives me to write truth, and to read and listen to truth from friends. But…

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