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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.

Welcome Whatever Keeps You from Pride

Welcome Whatever Keeps You from Pride

The thorns we experience may feel like a curse, but the pain they bring is being forced, by God, to protect, refine, and serve us.

Plans Will Fail Without Friends

Plans Will Fail Without Friends

Some fail by failing to plan. Others fail by neglecting to ask wise and faithful friends to speak into their plans.

What Courage Might Corona Unleash?

What Courage Might Corona Unleash?

As the coronavirus spreads, will those who have been freed from the fear of death take the risks, in the cause of love, that many in the world refuse to take?

Our Father Who Art Forgotten

Our Father Who Art Forgotten

Understanding the fatherhood of God begins with learning to be truly, extravagantly, tenaciously loved — by God.

Few Are the Plans of Many: The Wisdom in Scheduling Well

Few Are the Plans of Many

The Wisdom in Scheduling Well

Many of us have failed to plan our lives well because we have missed what the sovereign God has said about his plans for us.

Does God Really Hate Me? When Deep Love Feels Like Wrath

Does God Really Hate Me?

When Deep Love Feels Like Wrath

Intense and abiding pain often seems to cast serious doubt on God’s love for us. How can we tell if our suffering is discipline or judgment?

How to Suffer Well: Three Ways to Prepare Now

How to Suffer Well

Three Ways to Prepare Now

If we want to suffer well, we need to learn where to stand, and where to look, when our storms come.

When a Christian Couple Sins Sexually

When a Christian Couple Sins Sexually

When a Christian couple sins sexually, God comes calling for the man. Will he make excuses and shift blame, or do what it takes to honor God?

Good Men Work Hard and Sleep Well

Good Men Work Hard and Sleep Well

Work hard with what you have been given, for as long as you are given, and get some sleep along the way.

God Will Be Good Again Tomorrow

God Will Be Good Again Tomorrow

When tomorrow’s troubles storm the fragile gates of your mind, focus on the good, however small, you can see God doing today.

Go to God Together: Why the Church Gathers to Pray

Go to God Together

Why the Church Gathers to Pray

The soul of any Christian rises or falls with secret prayer, but it is not good for man to only pray alone.

What Difference Will Prayer Make? Why the Sovereignty of God Brings Us to Our Knees

What Difference Will Prayer Make?

Why the Sovereignty of God Brings Us to Our Knees

If God sovereignly plans everything that comes to pass, why would we pray? Because God plans for us to pray.

All You Need for Another Year

All You Need for Another Year

God will provide everything you need, in all things, at all times. Will you trust him and walk in the good works he has planned for you?

Death Was Crushed by Weakness: The Wondrous Power of the Cross

Death Was Crushed by Weakness

The Wondrous Power of the Cross

In the weakest moment imaginable, Jesus defeated the two most intimidating enemies you have ever known.

How to Love the Hard to Love

How to Love the Hard to Love

We will have to fight hard at love for now, but not for long. Hold that hope close as you love the hard to love.

No Mere God: The Fascinating Tension in Jesus Christ

No Mere God

The Fascinating Tension in Jesus Christ

The hypostatic union is simply (and inexplicably) the union of Jesus’s two natures mysteriously, inseparably, arrestingly in one spectacular person.

Someone Needs to See You Suffer Well

Someone Needs to See You Suffer Well

Your suffering is not a detour. Suffering may hinder or halt a hundred things in our lives, but it will also magnify our small visions of God.

Never Be Wise in Your Own Eyes: Three Cries of Crucified Pride

Never Be Wise in Your Own Eyes

Three Cries of Crucified Pride

Do you want to crucify your pride? Search for grace in someone else, know just how little you know, and savor what your weaknesses accomplish.

Take Care How You Hear: How to Receive God’s Word

Take Care How You Hear

How to Receive God’s Word

When you open the Bible tomorrow morning, humbly admit that you are not God, gladly submit to whatever he says, and pray for him to show you more of him.

‘I Shall Return’: General MacArthur and the Second Coming

‘I Shall Return’

General MacArthur and the Second Coming

On October 20, 1945, General Douglas MacArthur returned to the Philippines to liberate the nation from foreign brutality. It is an often-overlooked, and deeply personal, story of devotion, sacrifice, and triumph.

The Only Joy We Never Lose: Why Happiness Is Not Optional

The Only Joy We Never Lose

Why Happiness Is Not Optional

“Rejoice always.” Who among us feels all of the sobering weight and soaring promise in these two words from God?

Seven Prayers for Those You Love

Seven Prayers for Those You Love

The most powerful, thoughtful, and loving prayer we can pray for others is that they would enjoy more of God.

We Yawn Because We Forget: Uncovering the Wonder of Christ

We Yawn Because We Forget

Uncovering the Wonder of Christ

The next time you open the Bible looking for Jesus, remember that not everyone can see him like you can.

God Always Sets the Table: Savoring the Majesty in Every Meal

God Always Sets the Table

Savoring the Majesty in Every Meal

The next time you sit down to eat, slow down and savor the majesty in the meal God himself has made for you.

‘What Punishments of God Are Not Gifts?’ Stephen Colbert’s Moving Interview on Grief

‘What Punishments of God Are Not Gifts?’

Stephen Colbert’s Moving Interview on Grief

Stephen Colbert lost his father and two brothers when he was just ten years old. He recently gave an interview on grief, faith, and joy.

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