The End of Desire: Are desires good or bad?

Ask Away

Vince and Jo Vitale

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

We all have desires, but what are we supposed to do with them? Which makes for a better life—pursuing or suppressing desires? Indulging them or fearing them? In this episode of Ask Away, Jo and Vince talk about the role of desire in the Christian faith, and if the real problem might not be that we want too much, but that we’re settling for far too little. ------ We’re so glad you joined us for Ask Away. If you have a question that needs answering, we’d love to hear it. Send us an email at askawayquestion@gmail.com or call and leave a voicemail at ‪(321) 213-9670‬. Ask Away is hosted by Vince and Jo Vitale, and produced by Studio D Podcast Production. New episodes come out regularly, so make sure to subscribe. The best way you can support Ask Away is to leave a review. All you have to do is open up the Podcast App on your phone, look for Ask Away, scroll down until you see ‘Write a Review’ and tell us what you think. If you’d like to see videos from Vince and me, invite us to speak, or make a financial gift so that more people’s questions can be heard on Ask Away, visit Kardiaquestions.com See you next time, and remember, if you have a question, it’s worth asking.

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0:00.0	I was a skeptic who came to faith through asking hard questions.
0:04.0	I'm a long-time Christian whose faith was challenged by hard questions.
0:08.5	Whatever your story is, we all ask questions.
0:12.0	But some questions are more difficult to answer than others.
0:16.0	And some questions keep us up at night.
0:18.5	Who am I?
0:19.5	Does my life have value?
0:21.2	What determines my identity and purpose?
0:23.7	Is there a God?
0:24.9	Does he care?
0:26.0	What will happen when I die?
0:27.8	Is it even possible to know the truth?
0:29.7	We believe every question is valuable, and we receive every question as a gift.
0:35.8	So welcome to the podcast, where we invite you to Ask Away.
0:41.4	Hi everyone, welcome to Ask Away. I'm Joe and I'm here with Vince. Hey everyone, thanks for
0:46.1	listening. And we have recently been celebrating the fifth birthday of our son, Jonathan, which had
0:51.4	quite the long buildup because basically for about nine months, every time we walked into any kind of grocery store, he would point at something and say, Mom, can I have that for my birthday? The most random stuff. And I'm always very non-committal, kind of hoping that he will forget, but he never does. He has a mine like a steel trap. So six months later, he'll be like, hey, remember the baby Yoda
1:11.0	stuffy that I want for my birthday or remember the Luigi key ring. But this year, this year was
1:16.3	different. After reading a children's book about Jesus parables, and more than anything else,
1:21.7	he announced that for his birthday, his fifth birthday, he wanted a precious pearl. And so I spent weeks frantically trying to figure out,
1:30.2	like, how am I going to get my son an inexpensive precious pearl? Yeah, maybe a little.
1:35.6	Yeah. It doesn't really work, does it? But how am I going to find this thing for him? You know,
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