Various Authors
How to Pray for America on July 4
As Americans celebrate July 4 and remember those who fought and died for our freedom, we need to take time to pray for our soldiers.We ...
Spirit-Filled Trumpeter Glorifies God in July 4th Celebration
Millions of people will watch the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra perform tonight in a rousing tradition capped off by spectacular fireworks in remembrance of this ...
Glenn Beck Calls 'The Harbinger' the Answer
Nationally syndicated talk show host Glenn Beck gave best-selling book The Harbinger a sound endorsement during an interview last week on GBTV with its author, Jonathan Cahn.Following ...
Rosenberg: US Will Implode Without Third Great Awakening
As the son of a Jewish man, the state of Israel is near and dear to best-selling author Joel C. Rosenberg’s heart. First and foremost, ...
Paralyzed Steve Saint Undergoing Painful Therapy
Steve Saint, who suffered a paralyzing injury while testing new equipment for the mission field, is undergoing intense and painful therapy to restore the use ...
UCLA Eliminates Code Hindering Free Speech
In a victory for culture wars on campus, the University of California, Los Angeles, has revised a problematic flier-posting policy.The policy vaguely prohibited a broad ...
Liberals File Suit Against Illinois Defense of Marriage Act
Illinois’ same-sex marriage ban is under fire.Both the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund have filed suits against the ...
Faulty Foundations and Shifting Sands
There is a principle to be learned in this parable of Jesus in Matthew 7:24-27:“Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and puts them ...
Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Mississippi Abortion Law
Federal Court Judge Daniel P. Jordan III on Sunday night issued a temporary restraining order barring the state of Mississippi from enforcing a new law ...
Dreams, Visions Moving Muslims to Christ
Several years ago, Ali took the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca known as Hajj."Of course when I went to Mecca I was going there in order ...
Islamists Kill 17 Christians During Kenya Worship
Suspected members of the Islamic radical group, Al-Shabaab, attacked two churches and killed 17 Christians in Garissa, Kenya, on Sunday.The attacks took place during Sunday ...
"Temporary Troubles" -- Harvest Daily Devotion for 7/5/2012
Adversity prepares us for what God has ahead. God's people will be better off eternally because they suffered temporarily. The tradeoff in eternity will bear ...
"The Source of All Comfort" -- Harvest Daily Devotion for 7/4/2012
In a world of pain and hurt, God comforts us so that we can comfort others. Adversity gives us a new compassion for those who ...
"A Faith that Can't Be Trusted" -- Harvest Daily Devotion for 7/3/2012
Generally in life, we want to avoid pain. We want to be comfortable. Things like pain-free dentistry appeal to us. And so does effortless weight ...
"Don't Forget" -- Harvest Daily Devotion for 7/2/2012
Before the Israelites entered the Promised Land, God gave them a warning: "And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who ...
Let Yourself Believe He Loves You
Guest Post by Shaunti Feldhahn It was ironic that when Lysa asked me to post a guest blog about some of my research, I was ...
13 Minutes and 54 Seconds
That’s all the time it will take to watch this special video interview with my friend, Pastor Pete Wilson. Let me tell you some fun ...
We’ve Saved A Spot For You!
Lysa is having a special day with her family, so some of us on her team thought we’d take this chance to announce something fun ...
The Sweetest Sound I Know
The sweetest sound I know these days is my daughter’s precious little voice. In case you don’t know her story, we adopted Aster from Ethiopia ...
It's Time to Eliminate Negative Self-Talk
"Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts." (Proverbs 4:23 TEV)
Long before psychology came around, God said your thoughts determine your ...
Quit Trying to Please Everybody!
"It is dangerous to be concerned with what others think of you." (Proverbs 29:25a GNT)
We waste a lot of time and energy trying to figure ...
The Truth Sets You Free
"Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." (John 8:32 NIV)
Read this as a prayer today:
Jesus, you are the Truth, ...
Getting Everyone in the Game
"In the last days, God says,
'I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see ...
Pastors, Politics, and the American Republic
For those reading from the States, today is Independence Day, the peak of America's summer. So in the midst of cookouts and fireworks, ...
Our Mother Who Art In Heaven?
Returning to the "masculine feel" of Christianity discussion, it may be worthwhile to address one prominent point in the debate. While God the Father is ...
A Conference Focusing on the Power of Paradoxes
This fall the Desiring God National Conference will wrestle with paradoxes. Not contradictions. Things like Philippians 2:12–13, “You work . . . for God is ...
Finish Your Piper Collection — at Long Last
At one time, it would have cost you a pretty penny to finish off your Piper book collection.
A few fanatics would pony up what it ...
20 Quotes from Date Your Wife
I recently asked Justin Buzzard how he would sum up his new book in less than ten seconds. "If you want to change a marriage, ...
The Book of Galatians in 30 Tweets
Paul is en fuego in his letter to the Galatians. He’s flaming with a righteous apostolic anger. Best advice perhaps is don’t try this at ...
Thank You, Friends and Partners in Ministry
Dear Friends,
This is my public thanks to our gracious God for the way our fiscal year ended at Desiring God on June 30. We announced ...
What If I Had Stayed In the Workforce?
I have certain days as a mother — like the one I had a few weeks ago — where the eight-year-old, four-year-old, and one-year-old were ...
Learning from Myself Forty Years Later: Thoughts on the Republication of My Doctoral Dissertation
Crossway just republished my 1974 doctoral dissertation from the University of Munich. In re-reading parts of Love Your Enemies, I am struck at how solidifying ...
Teach Children the Bible Is Not About Them
When I go into churches and speak to children I ask them two questions:
First, how many people here sometimes think you have to ...
How Would You Like to Wear Your Joy?
Isaiah prophesies:
The ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness ...
Independence Day, 2012
For all my reading friends around the world, today my Country celebrates it's birthday, our Independence Day.It is the one day each year we are united together ...
Modesty, Where Have You Gone?
Most of the United States has been experiencing a heat wave. With the heat wave comes tube tops, short shorts, and swimsuits. As a general ...
What About My Feelings?
The habit of living by one's feelings has to be one of the major problems we encounter in dealing with the issues people face. Since ...
Two Kenyan churches attacked; at least 17 dead
Worshippers gunned down as they flee church buildingGarissa, July 2 (CDN) — Attackers with guns and hand-grenades killed at least 17 people and wounded scores ...
I’ll Be At BlogHer 2012 and Chick-fil-A Arboretum…Let the Awkwardness Begin
There is this girl who doesn’t pluck her eyebrows or shave on a daily basis. She waits until things like this are urgent. Like you ...
When It Feels Better To Blame Someone Else
You want to know one of the hardest three-word statements to make? “I am wrong.” It’s so easy to point out wrong in others. It’s ...
No More Unglued Mama Mornings
I’m making a bold commitment: No more unglued mama mornings. In other words, I want our mornings to go better this next school year with ...
When Doubt Tries to Bully Us
“What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?” Romans 8:31 (NIV) Have you ...
The Woman I Want to Be
A guest post from Heather Bleier: I grew up in the security of knowing my parents loved me and loved each other dearly. I also knew ...
How to Beat the Bully of Doubt
Satan is a bully who tries to make us feel small, inadequate, less than and insecure. But we don’t have to believe him anymore. Often ...
Chapter 11 – It’s Your Turn
“Jesus did not die on the cross just to get us out of hell and into heaven. He died on the cross to get Himself out ...
Ministering Biblical Counseling
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so ...
Weary and Sleepless
Why is it that the middle of the night thoughts are always the worst? It seems to me that the cares and concerns of life ...
When Alll Else Fails
When a family member professes to be a Christian and refuses to repent of known sin, other believing family members must continue to urge them ...
Staying the Course in Biblical Confrontation
We are continuing our look at the importance of church discipline in the one-to-one ministry of believers and in the larger context of the Church. ...
Intended to Convict
What do we do as The Church and what do we do as individuals when a loved one who professed to be a Christian refuses to ...
Why Church Discipline is Necessary
This week we will take several days to look at the importance of what is known as church discipline. One of the most heartbreaking things in ...
Our Trials, Our Tests
"For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name and having ministered and ...
Essential to Service
I was thinking about things that are essential to the Biblical Counselor. Of course, a solid base of Bible knowledge is critical, a love for ...
Watch Your Mouth
What kinds of words do you use? How many times a day do you say things like: "Oh my God" or "Jesus Christ!" or simply ...
Should I Tell Him? Part 2
Yesterday I presented you with a fictional case study of a woman who had committed adultery years ago. She had several sexual affairs over a ...
Violence topples Nigeria’s ‘bridge’
Murder of Christian senator, physician leaves big plans unfinishedJos, July 26 (CDN) — Gyang Dantong was killed while attending a funeral. ...
Indian Christians forced into Hindu worship, driven from homes
“Freedom of Religion” law on the books, but reality is differentJawanga, July 17 (CDN) — JAWANGA, Chhattisgarh state, India, July 17 (Open Doors News) - ...
Church of Christ in Nigeria reeling from massacre
Members are ‘psychologically traumatized,’ leaders sayJos, July 12 (CDN) — In the Plateau state of central Nigeria, tensions had run high all week between ethnic ...
Nigerian attackers kill dozens of Christians
Coordinated attacks kill dozens of Christians; reprisal attacks bring total death toll to more than 100Jos, July 9 (CDN) — The news is distressingly familiar: ...