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Marshall Segal

Marshall Segal serves as President & CEO of Desiring God. He’s the author of Not Yet Married: The Pursuit of Joy in Singleness & Dating. He graduated from Bethlehem College and Seminary, and serves as deacon at Cities Church. He and his wife, Faye, have three children and live in Minneapolis.

See Your Way Through Worry: Four Sights for Anxious Minds

See Your Way Through Worry

Four Sights for Anxious Minds

When anxiety holds our attention captive, Jesus summons us to lift our eyes: Look to the birds. Look to the lilies. Look to your Father’s kingdom.

Restore Our Joy in You: A Prayer for God-Centered Revival

Restore Our Joy in You

A Prayer for God-Centered Revival

When our souls grow dull to spiritual reality, the character of God is our confidence. He has restored us before; he will revive us again.

Come to Church to Get

Come to Church to Get

The banner flying over corporate worship is not “come and give” but “come and get.” Our first business each Sunday is to seek a happy soul in God.

Glory May Cost You Everything: An Invitation to Romans 8

Glory May Cost You Everything

An Invitation to Romans 8

If you want to stabilize your soul, fortify your heart, and inflame your joy, then come walk the cliffs and peaks of the greatest of all chapters: Romans 8.

How to Plan Wickedly Well

How to Plan Wickedly Well

When you plan, do you acknowledge what you don’t know, admit what you can’t control, and ask God for help? If not, your plans may be well-laid but wicked.

How to Win a Fight: Heavenly Wisdom for Relational Conflict

How to Win a Fight

Heavenly Wisdom for Relational Conflict

What counsel does the book of James offer for our relationships? Submit to God, ask for wisdom, temper your words, calm your anger, and embrace godly community.

Good Friday for Bad People

Good Friday for Bad People

Good Friday bids us to stop and remember just how sinful we were — just how bleak it was for us before that darkest day in history.

Live Like Death Is Gain

Live Like Death Is Gain

How can we make Jesus look good in life and in death? By enjoying him as better than anything life could ever give — and better than anything death could ever take.

Sin Won’t Comfort You: How Satan Tempts the Hurting

Sin Won’t Comfort You

How Satan Tempts the Hurting

The “comforts” of sin may seem safer and more appealing in the fires of your trials, but they will only make your pain that much worse.

The Joy of Genuine Revival: Four Signs of the Holy Spirit

The Joy of Genuine Revival

Four Signs of the Holy Spirit

When the Holy Spirit fills a person, he brings supernatural, countercultural joy: joy that submits, joy that endures, joy that spreads, and joy that waits.

Are You Sailing or Sinking? A Tool for Diagnosing Spiritual Health

Are You Sailing or Sinking?

A Tool for Diagnosing Spiritual Health

If you want to assess the health of a soul, try asking these four questions from Tim Keller: Are you sailing? Are you rowing? Are you drifting? Or are you sinking?

Hell Can Heal Any Bitterness: Finding Peace in God’s Vengeance

Hell Can Heal Any Bitterness

Finding Peace in God’s Vengeance

Forgiveness may feel impossible right now, but you can find peace, even pursue peace, by learning to trust God and his coming, perfect justice.

Respectable Drunkenness: Subtle Ways to Numb a Soul

Respectable Drunkenness

Subtle Ways to Numb a Soul

Many of us who never abuse alcohol still experience a kind of respectable drunkenness, an indulgence in something good that dulls our hearts to God.

The Three Most Important Words in Prayer

The Three Most Important Words in Prayer

Sometimes the last three words in our prayers — in Jesus’s name — slowly lose their weight and meaning. Here are six reasons to slow down and savor them.

Prayer: A Reader’s Guide to a Christian Classic

Prayer

A Reader’s Guide to a Christian Classic

His first cancer diagnosis sent Tim Keller on a quest to experience the awe and intimacy that God promises to those who pray. Twelve years later, he wrote the book on what he learned.

Christmas Like a Christian: Five Glories the World Belittles

Christmas Like a Christian

Five Glories the World Belittles

As you open your homes and presents this Christmas, make the feast as Christian as possible. Fix your eyes on the Son who came, and will come again.

Trials Are Gardens for Lies: How Thankfulness Guards Us Against Satan

Trials Are Gardens for Lies

How Thankfulness Guards Us Against Satan

God is the giver of every good thing you might lose, and he is the giver of every good thing you might crave. That makes gratitude a great weapon against temptation.

Find Your Fathers in Christ: Advice for Younger Men

Find Your Fathers in Christ

Advice for Younger Men

If you are a younger man, you need the example and encouragement of men who are further along in faith. You need the firm love of spiritual fathers.

Romance Can Ruin You: How a Relationship Becomes a God

Romance Can Ruin You

How a Relationship Becomes a God

Romance can be a friend and an ally, or an enemy and a terror. It can point us to the Love we were made for, or it can leave us lovesick forever.

We Have Sinned and Grown Old: Seeing Through Six-Year-Old Eyes

We Have Sinned and Grown Old

Seeing Through Six-Year-Old Eyes

What does it say about us that as we grow older, we often lose our ability to notice and enjoy the brilliance and creativity of God in all that he’s made?

The Dangers of Alone: Five Questions for Single Men

The Dangers of Alone

Five Questions for Single Men

If you want to live your single years well, find good answers to five crucial questions: Who’s over you? Who’s ahead of you? Who’s beside you? Who’s behind you? And who’s against you?

The Successful and Worthless Husband: Five Marks of Foolish Men

The Successful and Worthless Husband

Five Marks of Foolish Men

One way to grow as a husband is to learn from a bad one. Here are five marks of a foolish man.

Until You Get to Pastor: Seven Ambitions for Aspiring Men

Until You Get to Pastor

Seven Ambitions for Aspiring Men

Unwanted waiting can be the best preparation for future ministry. Here are seven ambitions for aspiring men who feel stuck behind a closed door.

Where’s the Lion Now? Making Hard Decisions with Aslan

Where’s the Lion Now?

Making Hard Decisions with Aslan

When faced with big life decisions, we may find surprising wisdom from a simple question, drawn from Narnia: Where’s the lion now?

How to Read a Book by God: Eight Questions for Better Understanding

How to Read a Book by God

Eight Questions for Better Understanding

God wrote a book — the greatest book ever written. Because he decided to reveal himself in human words and phrases, we should want to read as well as humanly possible.

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