Jon Bloom
Desiring God
Minneapolis, MN, United States
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Don’t Follow Your Heart
This short book is a collection of 31 helps for common heart problems. Because your biggest problems in life are heart problems. → Read More
Don’t Follow Your Heart
This short book is a collection of 31 helps for common heart problems. Because your biggest problems in life are heart problems. → Read More
Things Not Seen
God is doing far more than we can ever tell. In this book, Jon Bloom tells the Bible stories of old to deepen our faith in our unshakeable God. → Read More
Don’t Follow Your Heart
This short book is a collection of 31 helps for common heart problems. Because your biggest problems in life are heart problems. → Read More
The Mosque on the Mount
For the past 13 centuries the Al Aqsa Mosque has occupied the temple’s former site. It is not a sign of God’s endorsement on Islam. Rather, the mosque is an unwitting guardian of the new covenant reality. → Read More
Will You Wrestle with God?
There are times when God only releases his blessings on us after a season of prolonged and even painful wrestling with him. → Read More
Prayers for Christ’s Increase and Our Decrease
We should not only desire this increasing joy, but also specifically ask God for it and be willing to endure whatever it takes to produce it. → Read More
Why We Pray for Our Meals
Praying before we eat a meal is a beautiful thing — or should be a beautiful thing. It is gloriously appropriate to give thanks and praise to God from whom all blessings flow. → Read More
How to Have Intimacy with God
We look for intimacy with God in all the wrong places. Here’s a better way to pursue deep and rich intimacy with the God of the Bible. → Read More
God Does Not Need You to Be Strong
Our natural bent will be to find our strength for today in ourselves, and not in God. God gives us weaknesses so that we have no choice but to lean on him. → Read More
God Knows
In your affliction, cry out to God for help. He hears. And when the time is right, God will answer you. For God sees you — and he knows. → Read More
Our Eyes Are a Parable About Faith
Our perceptions are not our primary source of truth; they were never designed to be. They require the help of another source in order for us to accurately understand what’s truly real. → Read More
There Was a Man Sent from God
Our faith is not a private matter. It is a public window through which God wants to reveal Jesus to others. → Read More
Jesus Offers Escape from Hypocrisy
The Christians in Sardis had the reputation of being alive, but they were not. Their reputation was a phantom of a former real greatness. Is this true of you? → Read More
Don’t Live Strong, Live Wise
This prayer of Moses will help you keep life in perspective. It will help you remember what is transient and what is eternal. It will help you live wisely. → Read More
Auld Lang Syne
What makes “Auld Lang Syne” so powerful? It has nothing to do with a New Year and everything to do with an old friend. → Read More
Who Would Have Dreamed?
This story is not of merely human origin. There is nothing like it in any other human religion or mythology: the Incarnation for the sake of atoning substitution for the sake of our redemption. → Read More
Christianity and Atheism
It’s true: The Christmas story is humanly strange. But to be fair, atheists also embrace wildly far-fetched, strange beliefs of their own. → Read More
Lay Aside the Weight of Slander
Slander is one of the adversary’s chief strategies to divide believers and derail the mission of the church. Be on our guard and lay slander aside. → Read More
Lay Aside the Weight of Low Self Image
If we find that we struggle with a low self-image, we need to look carefully at it, because it may not be low at all. → Read More