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Greg Morse is a staff writer for desiringGod.org and graduate of Bethlehem College & Seminary. He and his wife, Abigail, live in St. Paul with their son and daughter.

How to Love People You Don’t Like

How to Love People You Don’t Like

Do you love anyone in your life in a way that cannot be explained by anything other than Jesus?

Is My Christian Life Just a Dream?

Is My Christian Life Just a Dream?

How do you know you are really a Christian and not simply making it up in your mind?

Godless Productivity: A Believer’s Guide to Redeeming Time

Godless Productivity

A Believer’s Guide to Redeeming Time

Before you turn to the next best-seller on personal productivity, ask what God has said about redeeming time.

Victory That Lasts: Where to Begin Against Lust

Victory That Lasts

Where to Begin Against Lust

Many fail to gain victory in sexual purity because they begin with how and not with why.

Over Our Dead Bodies: Embracing the Costs of Warning the Lost

Over Our Dead Bodies

Embracing the Costs of Warning the Lost

Let them laugh. Let them mock and persecute us. We love them too much to let them go to hell unwarned, uninvited, and unprayed for.

Today Is an Anniversary

Today Is an Anniversary

A Toast to Roe v. Wade

Since the gavel sounded on Roe v. Wade, more than 17 million black children have been killed in their mother’s womb.

It Was My Sin That Held Him There: Weeping at the Foot of the Cross

It Was My Sin That Held Him There

Weeping at the Foot of the Cross

He was forsaken so that we might be accepted. He was crushed so that we might be healed. He was killed so that we might live.

The Most Innocent Way to Hell

The Most Innocent Way to Hell

Demons don’t mind holiness so much, as long as it’s always tomorrow’s holiness and never today’s.

The Valley We Would Not Choose

The Valley We Would Not Choose

We may think we know Psalm 23, but there are treasures hiding in the valley that many of us miss.

Prophet, Priest, and King: The High Calling of Christian Husbands

Prophet, Priest, and King

The High Calling of Christian Husbands

Husbands and fathers are not Christ. But they have a high calling to imitate, display, and impart Christ in their homes.

Lord, Let Me Die: Mercy for Those Tired of Living

Lord, Let Me Die

Mercy for Those Tired of Living

Some walk through the valley of the shadow of death and long to just lie down. How does God respond to those who pray for life to end?

We Murder with Words Unsaid

We Murder with Words Unsaid

Nearly 50% of Christian millennials surveyed believe it is wrong to share their faith with close friends and family members of different beliefs. Nearly half.

Feelings Make Wonderful Gods: A Demon’s Guide to Human Emotions

Feelings Make Wonderful Gods

A Demon’s Guide to Human Emotions

One of Satan’s most dangerous weapons lies in the heart of every human: our feelings.

Worthless Conversation: How God Weighs Our Words

Worthless Conversation

How God Weighs Our Words

Few thoughts should make us slower to speak than this one: on judgment day, every word we speak will stand before the throne of God.

The Dark Side of Christmas: How Demons Spend the Holidays

The Dark Side of Christmas

How Demons Spend the Holidays

Satan may have failed to dispose of the baby born in Bethlehem, but he has not stopped trying to write Christ out of Christmas.

Five Bad Reasons to Go to Church

Five Bad Reasons to Go to Church

Are the things you love about your church things you would appreciate and enjoy if God were not real?

The Illusion of Normal Days

The Illusion of Normal Days

The return of Christ should shape our lives in such a way that worldly people laugh at how we’ve wasted them.

Something Greater Than Us: A Groom’s Heart on His Wedding Day

Something Greater Than Us

A Groom’s Heart on His Wedding Day

Today, I step into something greater than me. Today, God casts me into the role of his Son. Today, I get married.

Secret Sins Will Harm Others

Secret Sins Will Harm Others

If you want to love others well, take every temptation seriously. One of the best ways we can love those closest to us is by obeying God when no one else is watching.

Alone Against the Mob: Crowds, Cancel Culture, and Courage

Alone Against the Mob

Crowds, Cancel Culture, and Courage

Crowds have the power to make the timid brave, the good better, and the bad devastatingly worse — a reality we find in our Bibles and our day.

You Are Totally (Not) Depraved: How to Recover Positive Self-Image

You Are Totally (Not) Depraved

How to Recover Positive Self-Image

The church should not be going to the world to learn about self-esteem and self-image. We should be the happiest and healthiest people on the planet.

How Could Heaven Not Have Sex?

How Could Heaven Not Have Sex?

We shouldn’t sigh when we read that neither sex nor marriage will be in heaven. Our Father who gave us these good gifts has greater things in store.

The Dangerous Love of Ease

The Dangerous Love of Ease

How many of us are yet to taste the spiritual adrenaline of a real adventure with God because we have not been willing to let go of our earthly comforts?

Where Dead Men Lie: Letter to a Would-Be Adulterer

Where Dead Men Lie

Letter to a Would-Be Adulterer

She says that she can satisfy your longings. She says that no one will know. She crowns you a king. Drown her lies with God’s word.

What Does Hell Say About God? The Truth Many Cannot Bear to Hear

What Does Hell Say About God?

The Truth Many Cannot Bear to Hear

Many cannot bear the thought that a loving God would send anyone to hell. But from heaven, we will finally see that sin against God, not the punishment of it, is the true horror.

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