2026 Christmas Gift Guide
‘The Sing! Hymnal’ Suite
Gerald Hiestand, Jay S. Thomas
God asks us to control not only our sexual activity but our sexual desire as well, arousing it only within the context of marriage.
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Podcast: How to Wait for Christmas in an Age of Instant Gratification (Jonathan Gibson)
Johnny Gibson discusses what it looks like to truly prepare our hearts for Christmas and talks about how and why the Advent season is meant to be a season of waiting.
This gospel meditation by Paul David Tripp contrasts the broken cities of this world with the restored one to come.
How Stories Can Help Guide Kids Through Hard Choices
When we read rich stories with our kids and dialogue with them about the conflicts that characters face, we equip them to navigate hard choices after they’ve left the safety and security of our homes.
Podcast: How the Sacraments Help Us Know Who We Truly Are (Kevin Emmert)
Kevin Emmert explains why the sacraments are so central to our lives as believers and why their shaping power is more relevant than ever in a world obsessed with identity and self-expression.
We need to zoom out and broaden our view of worship, like seeing the span of the ocean from the sky. Because whether or not we’re aware of it, we are women who worship—all day, every day.
Tim Chester explains how his book, You Can Change, unfolds.
Podcast: How to Do Family Worship During the Holidays (Don Whitney)
How can you help your family not lose sight of God and the gospel during the holidays and build in a rhythm of regularly worshiping him together?
This poignant account of a man’s ruin and restoration dramatically reveals a gospel story of God’s mercy toward those who have stood against him.
Podcast: The Message Your Daughter Needs to Hear from You (Kristen Wetherell)
Kristen Wetherell talks through helping our daughters view themselves the way God views them, and how parents can lead them in a counter cultural, biblical way.
Video: Don Whitney on the Benefit of Praying the Bible
In this video, Justin Taylor sits down with Don Whitney to discuss what it means to pray through God's Word.
God's Purpose and Provision in Suffering
Nancy Guthrie is editor of Be Still My Soul: Embracing God's Purpose and Provision in Suffering. Included in this compilation are these thoughts from Jonathan Edwards, never more true or more needed than now.
Never Severed from God, Not Even for an Instant
Through Jesus, that is, by the death of Christ, a redeemed believer’s death is not a penalty but a falling asleep.
The Shared Experience of Growing Up Evangelical but Spiritually Underdeveloped
I look back with great fondness and thanksgiving for my evangelical upbringing, but I did sometimes wonder, What exactly does growth in the Christian life look like?
As humanity proved incapable of fulfilling God’s purposes from the very beginning, God, in his grace, became present to do what man was unable to do.
Why has there arisen this impulse in our day toward pastor-scholars and scholar-pastors? Why are so many in the younger generation reluctant to let the pastoral and scholarly roads diverge?
Cultivating Habits of Grace: Day 3
Day 3: Have God's Ear In this video, David Mathis looks at the second means of grace: having God's ear in prayer. He then explains 3 different types of prayer and a helpful approach to …
Podcast: How Journaling Could Reinvigorate Your Prayer Life (Erika Allen)
Erika Allen talks about the struggles of consistent prayer, how journaling can help us with that, and what God really thinks about our baby steps towards him.
What We Can Learn from Reading Jonathan Edwards
Sean Michael Lucas shares his new book, God's Grand Design: The Theological Vision of Jonathan Edwards.
J. I. Packer: In His Own Words - Transcript
Transcripted by desiringGod.org Part 1: Early Life Leland Ryken: Who is J. I. Packer? Put simply, in the last half of the twentieth century and early part of our own century, J. I. Packer has …
From the very beginning of Scripture we see that the one true God is not a couch potato God, nor did he create a couch potato world.
The Discipline of Devotion Resources
Choruses and Scripture Songs Praise Psalms Especially Appropriate for Personal Worship Hymns for Personal Adoration and Praise
What Does the Cross Have to Do with Justice?
We are justified by the blood of Christ. And as a justified people, we are then called to seek justice for every image-bearer on the planet.
Scriptural meditation can be woven into our busy schedules—while waiting for a ride, at lunch, mowing the lawn, jogging, and even lying awake at night.
When You Beat Yourself Up with the Gospel
One thing I run into a ton in pastoral ministry, in soul care, especially as a counselor, is people who feel a sense of failure because of their emotions.
Podcast: Were the First Christians Socialists? (Greg Forster)
How should believers think about the global economy and what practical difference should our beliefs make in the way that we spend and live?
Cultivating Habits of Grace: Day 4
Day 4: Belong to God's Body In this video, David Mathis explains the third means of grace: belonging to God's body, the church. He looks at the word fellowship, explaining what it really means in …
The Great (American) Commission - Part 3
This is the third post (part 1, part 2) in a 3-part series by Tim Keesee on the role of American missionaries in the 21st century.
The paradox of evangelism is that when we remember that evangelism is impossible, we are more likely to evangelize.
What Help Does the Book of Romans Offer to Those Who Are Struggling with Sin?
The book of Romans is bluntly realistic and admits that all of us will struggle with sin. So what can we do about it?