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

Because They Are No More

Because They Are No More

If a pitiless culture will not mourn for the missing, she will.

Seeing Is Not Believing: Why We Miss God in Daily Life

Seeing Is Not Believing

Why We Miss God in Daily Life

Some imagine they would believe in God if he would simply write his message in the clouds. But what if he actually did?

Face Your Fear of Man: How Christ Delivers from Human Approval

Face Your Fear of Man

How Christ Delivers from Human Approval

Jesus could love people like he did because he did not fear them like we do.

Stuck Between the World and God: How I Almost Died in Indecision

Stuck Between the World and God

How I Almost Died in Indecision

God is not honored by mere checked boxes. He’s honored by a life that says he can be trusted, obeyed, and treasured above all else.

The Love in His Grief: How the Spirit Responds to Our Sin

The Love in His Grief

How the Spirit Responds to Our Sin

The Spirit can be grieved with us. But if we are in Christ, the Spirit will never leave us.

What God Can Do in One Conversation: Recovering the Power of Personal Evangelism

What God Can Do in One Conversation

Recovering the Power of Personal Evangelism

In all the emphases on slow, patient, relational evangelism, have we forgotten just how much God can do in a single conversation?

Sympathy Without Distress: The Exalted Compassion of Christ

Sympathy Without Distress

The Exalted Compassion of Christ

The risen Jesus remembers us, loves us, intercedes for us — and not in a way that diminishes his heavenly joy. That is really good news.

The Subtle Way to Waste Your Life: Confessions of a Sophisticated Sloth

The Subtle Way to Waste Your Life

Confessions of a Sophisticated Sloth

Life is rarely wasted all at once, but rather through thousands of small, seemingly insignificant moments.

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?

As for Me and My House: The Delightful Duty of Family Religion

As for Me and My House

The Delightful Duty of Family Religion

God doesn’t want worship to be a tiny corner of family life. He wants worship to touch every room, closet, and hallway.

The Contagion of Cowardice

The Contagion of Cowardice

God requires a lot of men in the church. The enemies are real, and the risks are great. Will we trust God enough to lay aside our fears?

Sons of Lionhearted Saints: Recovering Our Lost Lineage

Sons of Lionhearted Saints

Recovering Our Lost Lineage

The pages of Scripture are filled with the stories of brothers and sisters meant to stir up your heart and keep you following Jesus.

Let Tragedy Find Us Living

Let Tragedy Find Us Living

The story of Job reminds us that our world can be undone in an afternoon. Have you prepared your soul for the worst that may come?

In Love with the Life You Don’t Have

In Love with the Life You Don’t Have

Discontentment comes subtly, easily, naturally. Contentment comes slowly, deeply, supernaturally.

Desperate for Distraction: Why We’re Bad at Being Alone

Desperate for Distraction

Why We’re Bad at Being Alone

For many, “quiet time” is anything but quiet. Distractions, diversions, and notifications fill the room. How can we learn to get alone with God in our brave, new world of distractions?

Repentance for a New Year

Repentance for a New Year

When you hear God’s summons to repent, do you hear an invitation to misery, or a doorway to joy?

Christmas with an Empty Chair: When the Holiday Just Isn’t the Same

Christmas with an Empty Chair

When the Holiday Just Isn’t the Same

We need not hide or suppress the pain of loss at Christmas. God means for the pain to deepen our joy and hope in him.

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.

Indescribable: The Many and Marvelous Names of Jesus

Indescribable

The Many and Marvelous Names of Jesus

Why so many names for Jesus? Because God wanted us to know that we will always have more to see and love in him.

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.

Take the Hill: How Mission Brings Men Together

Take the Hill

How Mission Brings Men Together

The apostle Paul labored shoulder to shoulder with men in such a way that he could call them “fellow soldiers.” Do we have such men beside us?

Sin Is Not Who You Are

Sin Is Not Who You Are

If you could see yourself how God sees you in Christ, you would have all you need to overcome any temptation.

For God So Warned the World: How He Keeps the Ones He Loves

For God So Warned the World

How He Keeps the Ones He Loves

When you come to a warning in the Bible, do you ignore it because of grace, or do you look for the grace in it?

Live Like You’ll Live Forever

Live Like You’ll Live Forever

How might it change us if we really believed that we, and every soul we meet, will live forever?

Every Other Way Leads to Death: Why We Keep Sharing Christ

Every Other Way Leads to Death

Why We Keep Sharing Christ

No matter how many rejections you’ve received, no matter how much fruit hasn’t come, no matter how discouraged you feel, do not grow weary in sharing Christ.

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