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The Day Heaven Kissed Earth
Christmas is the day heaven kissed earth.The Eternal Word, the golden son of heaven, humbly and willingly took up our comparatively lowly humanity, without ceasing to be God, and entered into the...
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The Power of ‘Les Miserables’
The new stage-to-screen adaptation of Les Misérables (which releases today) is proof again of the enduring power of Victor Hugo’s 150-year-old masterpiece. The novel-turned-musical has been released...
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Learning from the Largest Mass Execution in U.S. History
It was the day after Christmas, 1862, in the town square of Mankato, Minnesota, that 38 Dakota warriors were hanged at the order of president Abraham Lincoln. After 150 years, it is still the largest...
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He Came to Conquer... and Send
A Hindu once asked the missionary E. Stanley Jones, “What has Christianity to offer that our religion has not?” He replied, “Jesus Christ.” Indeed, Jesus Christ is central to Christian belief and...
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Still Not Professionals (Free eBook)
On February 4–6, 2013, we will gather, God willing, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for the annual Desiring God Conference for Pastors. This time the theme is “Brothers, We Are Still Not Professionals:...
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Where Was God in All the Goodness of 2012?
As this year ends, the question I am asking is: Where was God when so many good things happened this past year? How can God be a God of justice, yet allow so much good to happen to people who dishonor...
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An Invitation to Give
Dear Friends,I want to share with you this request from John Piper.If you've been helped by our message and want to support our work, would you please consider making a donation before December 31? To...
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When the Perfect Comes . . .
“…when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away” (1 Corinthians 13:10).Another year is passing away. Thank God. Not only for the massive amounts of unquantifiable grace we have received from him,...
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What Difference Has Looking Made?
The holiday season is notoriously busy. But there are often quiet moments at Christmas to slow our lives down for worship. The classic Nativity figurines and all the classic Nativity paintings capture...
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The Year in Sports at Desiring God
Let the record show that we did not set out in 2012 to write more often about sports at Desiring God than previous years. But as we’ve looked back on the last year, we noticed an uptick in our...
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Our Top 25 Posts of 2012
Some posts meet our readers in especially powerful or timely ways. We strive to provide God-glorifying, heart-stirring, church-building content every day, but we realize that some prove more memorable...
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From Closet to Coastlands: Bible Reading and Prayer in 2013
'Tis now the season to get strategic. With the New Year on the horizon, many of us are beginning to consider the logistics of our devotional lives for 2013. Bible-reading plans, book lists, prayer...
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Make a Fresh Covenant with Me: We Will Finish in Faith
Treat this year-end like the end of your life. Then be ecstatic that you get to start a new life tomorrow.For some of us, not only is the year ending, but so is a life-ministry. When the clock tolls...
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This Week’s Sermon: “Sorrowful Yet Always Rejoicing”
Indomitable joy in Jesus in the very midst of suffering and sorrow — this is what the world needs from the church.As tempting as it may be to figure things differently, what the world does not need...
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Birthday, Last Day, Good Day
Noël’s birthday was on December 27. My last day as Lead Pastor for Preaching is today, December 31. I’ve been in this role at Bethlehem for thirty-two and a half years today. Remarkably, Noël turned 65...
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Every Moment in 2013 God Will Be Doing 10,000 Things in Your Life
“God is always doing 10,000 things in your life, and you may be aware of three of them.” That was one of our most widely spread tweets in 2012. So we want to say it again for 2013 and make this promise...
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Pray for Passion 2013
The Georgia Dome in downtown Atlanta was rocking for last night’s major college bowl game that came down to the last snap, but anticipations are that it will be even louder the next three nights — with...
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Jerry Bridges on the Spiritual Disciplines
Here at the outset of 2013, in the midst of so many vain resolutions, perhaps God would be pleased to do a fresh work of grace in your life. Maybe he would give you some “resolve for good” (2...
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Our Top 12 Videos of 2012
At Desiring God, we love creating resources and telling stories that encourage, challenge, equip, and inspire the saints to live lives supremely glorifying to God. Video has become a powerful and...
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10 Things to Pray for Your Wife
Our hunger for God will not be confined to our closets. As we know him and delight in all that he is for us in Jesus, our joy in him reaches beyond personal experience on a quest to be reproduced in...
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