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David Mathis

Minneapolis

Senior teacher and Executive editor at Desiring God

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  • 1 week ago | desiringgod.org | David Mathis

    “I just want to give glory to God . . .”Whether it’s a post-game interview with a Christian athlete or everyday talk with friends and family, we’ve all heard it and likely said it. The strength of such a line is its Godwardness and rightness. A weakness of such talk can be its vagueness. How exactly does one “give glory” to God? “Giving glory” to God is clearly a biblical category — and Scripture is not as vague as we often are.

  • 3 weeks ago | crossway.org | David Mathis |Mike Cosper |John Piper

    Exodus 34:6–7 The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.” Romans 3:23–24 For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and...

  • 2 months ago | churchleaders.com | David Mathis

    Mother’s Day is a sweet opportunity for Christians to celebrate one of God’s most significant means of his common and redeeming grace. For most, there’s some bitter flavor somewhere. We live in a fallen world. All mothers are sinful—even Jesus’ own mother knew well her need for a Savior (Luke 1:47).

  • 2 months ago | desiringgod.org | David Mathis

    He was buried. (1 Corinthians 15:4)All four Gospels make a scene of Jesus’s burial. And all four reveal the name of a man we otherwise would not know — an intriguing figure whom a prophet had foretold some seven centuries prior. That “he was buried” might seem obvious enough, and a small detail, but it’s emphatically not. Far from obvious, it was very unusual for a crucified body to be honored with burial.

  • 2 months ago | desiringgod.org | David Mathis

    My task, here at the end of this conference, is to convince you, or remind you, or deepen your conviction, that despite what the world tells us, and what our people themselves might say, our people desperately need God. They hunger for him. Every time we preach, our hearers, whoever they are — men and women, teens and children, middle-aged and elderly — they are God-hungry people. Some of them, perhaps many, are starving for him.

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