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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.

My Joy in the Desert

My Joy in the Desert

Our plea in the desert is not simply for strength and survival, but for joy. Christians alone can rejoice in trials, because this is where we find more of God.

The Secret to Job Satisfaction

The Secret to Job Satisfaction

God calls every Christian to glorify him in our work — not in the job we want, but in the one we actually have.

What Leads ‘Christians’ Away from Christ?

What Leads ‘Christians’ Away from Christ?

If we worship ourselves and not God, our impulses and desires will win out over his warnings and promises in the moment of temptation.

You Don’t Have to Get Married to Be Happy

You Don’t Have to Get Married to Be Happy

You don’t have to get married to be happy. In fact, until we realize that we don’t have to get married to be happy, we’re really not ready to marry.

Fifty Shades of Nay: Sin Is a Needle, Not a Toy

Fifty Shades of Nay

Sin Is a Needle, Not a Toy

Before you read the books or see the movies, I want to put ten of God’s promises before you.

You Can Forgive Your Parents

You Can Forgive Your Parents

Christian, your parents did not get in the way of God’s plans for you. They were God’s plan for you.

Pray Something Big Before You Eat

Pray Something Big Before You Eat

When you stop to pray before a meal, pray something big. If you don’t know how to do that, or what to pray, you could start with Psalm 104.

Happily Ever After

Happily Ever After

Finding Grace in the Messes of Marriage

These short devotionals by John Piper, Francis Chan, and others are designed to shape, challenge, and inspire your own vision of marriage and God.

Theology Can Blind You to God

Theology Can Blind You to God

Six Warning Signs

Even theology itself can blind us to God and rob us of real life and joy. Consider the symptoms that your theology might be leading you away from Christ.

Some Slavery Feels Like Freedom

Some Slavery Feels Like Freedom

Many in the world live with their hands full and their hearts empty, appearing to be free, but living in slavery.

Captured. Committed. Contagious.

Captured. Committed. Contagious.

Marks of True Christian Community

These six verses are short enough to memorize, and yet big enough to shape years, even decades, of friendship and life in the local church.

My Prayer for Next Year

My Prayer for Next Year

Lord, teach me more about you than I already know, humble me again with all I do not know, and make what I do know more real in my heart.

Fullness of God in Helpless Babe

Fullness of God in Helpless Babe

One of the great wonders of Christmas is that Christ, the Son of God, did not just become human, but become a small, helpless, and needy baby.

Don’t Go to Bed with Your Anger

Don’t Go to Bed with Your Anger

If we depend on time to heal what’s wrong in our relationships, we will carry wounds with us the rest of our lives.

Don’t Believe in Yourself

Don’t Believe in Yourself

The Subtle Pride That Lies Inside

Either pride will kill you, or you will allow God to kill the pride in you. Here are three ways pride wars against us, and three ways we can fight back.

The Golden Rule in Christian Dating

The Golden Rule in Christian Dating

Have you ever tried to list out all the different dating advice you’ve heard — even just the advice from other Christians? Here’s my golden rule for couples.

God Will Clothe Your Weakness with Power

God Will Clothe Your Weakness with Power

Too many of us live daily with no sense of the spiritual energy and potential residing in us. But God has clothed us with his power for a specific purpose.

Live Like Sons and Daughters of the King

Live Like Sons and Daughters of the King

We subtly begin to act like employees, when God has made us sons and daughters. Here are three stunning promises he has made to his children.

Never Harmless, Never Private, Never Safe

Never Harmless, Never Private, Never Safe

Fighting Porn with Superior Pleasure

Pornography is not a simple guilty pleasure. It will kill us, if we let it. Fighting well takes more than self-control and self-denial.

We Die a Thousand Ways in Love

We Die a Thousand Ways in Love

Christian love sets aside social status, cultural norms, and the comfort of convenience to joyfully meet the inconvenient needs of others.

Seven Simple Daily Prayers

Seven Simple Daily Prayers

Prayerlessness is the great enemy of true happiness. If you have set it aside or are stuck in a rut, here are seven simple prayers to pray each day.

Labor, Delivery, and New Birth

Labor, Delivery, and New Birth

Newborns may not be able to do anything for themselves, but they can teach us a lot about the most important things in the world.

Make Disciples

The Life-Changing Ministry of Why

We disciple in everything we do, so we should be intentional in everything we do to model joy in Jesus.

The Haunted Hayride of Human Approval

The Haunted Hayride of Human Approval

The allure of human approval should seem more dangerous than enticing, and more threatening than tempting.

Wait to Date Until You Can Marry

Wait to Date Until You Can Marry

At what age should Christians begin to date? What I learned while looking for affection, safety, and intimacy from girls instead of from God.

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