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July 2025

July 28, 2025

10 Verses That Have Shaped Me

I grew up in an unbelieving home, but at age 15 I came to faith...

July 24, 2025

How Focusing on Heaven Energizes Your Life

This short video was filmed by Desiring God several years ago, but the message of...

July 21, 2025

Diabetes Is One of the Best Things That’s Happened to Me

In July 1985 I became an insulin-dependent diabetic, and my first book, Money Possessions, and...

July 17, 2025

Entitlement Is One of the Greatest Enemies of True Happiness

Though all of us, if asked, might say that we don’t have any more right to a...

July 14, 2025

The Ultimate Answer to Loneliness Is Theological

At times all of us are lonely, but to be chronically lonely is to live...

July 10, 2025

More Than One Way to Store Up Treasure in Heaven

The primary passage of Scripture that talks about storing up treasures in Heaven is Matthew...

July 07, 2025

God’s Contraconditional Love

I met and talked with author and psychologist David Powlison only once, but I will...

July 03, 2025

50 Years Ago, Nanci and I Said “I Do”

Tomorrow, May 31, is Nanci’s and my 50th wedding anniversary. I thank God for His...

June 2025

June 30, 2025

William Wilberforce Encourages Us To Look to Jesus

One of my great heroes is William Wilberforce. He is credited as the primary human...

June 30, 2025

What Does It Mean to Give Quietly?

Jesus says, “Be careful not to do your ‘acts of righteousness’ before men, to be...

June 26, 2025

Reforming Our Vocabulary to Fit the Resurrection

A radio preacher, speaking about a Christian woman whose Christian husband had died, said, “Little...

June 23, 2025

The Kingdom of Kingdoms

God created Adam and Eve to be king and queen over the earth. Their job...

June 19, 2025

Will We Explore the New Heavens?

The “new heaven” in Revelation 21:1 apparently refers to exactly the same atmospheric and celestial heavens as “heavens” does...

June 16, 2025

Grieving the Death of Your Mom, with Hope

My mom grew up in the Dalles, Oregon, and worked at Charles F. Berg clothing...

June 12, 2025

How is the Bride of Christ Portrayed in Revelation?

A reader asked me this question: I read your article about the dimensions of the New Jerusalem...

June 09, 2025

Astronauts, the Heavens, and Our Eternal Home

I’ve seen a few things about astronaut Butch Wilmore, who was stuck in space for...

June 05, 2025

Our Call to Protect and Disciple Our Children

I’ve known Christian parents who wish their teenagers wouldn’t watch R-rated movies, wish their daughters...

June 02, 2025

In His Deliverance of a Desperate Man, Jesus Gives Us Hope

Mark 5:1–20 speaks powerfully of an angry, alienated, and lonely man, driven to despair at...

May 2025

May 26, 2025

God’s Answer to, “Why Don’t You Do Something About Evil?”

Self-described agnostic atheist Bart Ehrman writes, “I came to think that there is not a...

May 22, 2025

Will We Have Physical Forms in the Present Heaven?

Given the consistent physical descriptions of the present Heaven and those who dwell there, it...

May 19, 2025

How Can the Happiness of Heaven Touch Our Lives Today?

This life is neither our only opportunity nor our best one for happiness, adventure, and...

May 15, 2025

Are Happiness and Holiness Exclusive?

Some Christians see happiness as the virtual opposite of holiness. But Scripture says otherwise. Greek...

May 12, 2025

How Does Idolatry Kill Our Happiness?

In the first two chapters of Genesis, God had no competition for the affection of...

May 08, 2025

Is God Happy?

To be godly is to resemble God. If God were unhappy, we’d need to pursue...

May 05, 2025

Are We Hardwired for Happiness?

In the twentieth century, many Bible-believing churches moved from Charles Spurgeon’s “You cannot be too...

May 01, 2025

Is There a Conflict Between Joy and Happiness?

As part of a study related to my Happiness book, I recorded a series of videos, 10...

April 2025

April 28, 2025

God’s Plan to Redeem the Earth

The entire physical universe was created for God’s glory. When we rebelled, the universe fell...

April 25, 2025

Knowing Our Ultimate Destination Changes Everything

Two years ago, I did an interview with Davey Blackburn, who hosts the Nothing Is Wasted...

April 21, 2025

Finding the Balance in Financial Responsibility and Giving

A reader wrote our ministry, “For several years my husband and I have enjoyed giving...

April 17, 2025

God Makes Much of Little Things

God isn’t just in life’s monumental things. He’s present in the little things: rain drops,...

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