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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 an elder at Cities Church. He and his wife, Faye, have three children and live in Minneapolis.

Defy the Impossible in Front of You

Defy the Impossible in Front of You

What challenge, obstacle, or crisis are you confronted with right now? Reading the Bible is often about redefining the impossible in our lives again.

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.

The Wild and Precious Gift of Poetry: Learning How to Dance with God

The Wild and Precious Gift of Poetry

Learning How to Dance with God

Most give up on poetry before even trying. The few that have made the effort know what a wild and precious gift it is, especially for enjoying God.

If You Could See What You Will Be

If You Could See What You Will Be

When you see the glory of God in the new heavens and new earth, you will not only see it. You will share it. You will become glorious with his glory.

The Still More Glorious Day

The Still More Glorious Day

The greatest days of your life happened long before you were born. And the greatest day of all is still to come.

The Joy of Living in Jesus’s Shadow

The Joy of Living in Jesus’s Shadow

One key to happiness is learning the joy and freedom of being found in Jesus’s shadow. John the Baptist, one of the most important men in history, joyfully retreated to the background when Christ came. We all need to learn that kind of fearless, hardworking, full-hearted rest and humility.

You Are Better Having Loved and Lost

You Are Better Having Loved and Lost

You are as precious to God as you have ever been, and he is using every inch of this to make you more like himself.

How to Love an Immortal

How to Love an Immortal

What might it look like to study and work, to date and marry and parent, to disagree and forgive, like you’ll live forever?

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?

Silent Night: A Christmas Lullaby for God’s Beloved

Silent Night

A Christmas Lullaby for God’s Beloved

No baby is born on a silent night, especially not in a stable. Jesus Christ came to bring the sweet silence of peace between us and God.

Your Inner War Will End: How Heaven Frees Us from Sin

Your Inner War Will End

How Heaven Frees Us from Sin

If you hope in Christ, one day you will never sin again. Your war will be over, your plague lifted. You will see Jesus as he is, and you will be like him.

Pro-Life from Womb to Tomb

Pro-Life from Womb to Tomb

The Christian cause for life should begin at conception, celebrate every birth, provide love and care through childhood, and advocate even through death.

The Light We Never Saw by Day

The Light We Never Saw by Day

Sometimes, God turns out the lights to show us something we wouldn’t have seen otherwise. We needed to be blinded by darkness to learn how to see.

There Is No App for That: Are We Trading Our Present for Pictures?

There Is No App for That

Are We Trading Our Present for Pictures?

We will enjoy the memories we made here on earth and make memories every new day in paradise, as we infinitely scroll through glory for all eternity.

The Good American: What Samaria Says About Racial Hostility

The Good American

What Samaria Says About Racial Hostility

The history of black-white hostility in America may leave us with little optimism about healing. But Jesus can bind up wounds as deep as ours. He already has.

A Big God Will Eclipse Every Pain

A Big God Will Eclipse Every Pain

Often the moments of life we feel most helpful are when sitting with friends or family who are suffering. What’s the first thing you say to someone in your life who’s experiencing significant grief or has received tragic news? The Bible’s approach to pain may surprise you.

Uncomfortably Limited: The Frustrating Beauty of Finitude

Uncomfortably Limited

The Frustrating Beauty of Finitude

Like blades of grass, we are here today, gone tomorrow — frail, fragile, finite. But those who fear and follow God know a steadfast love that will outlive the mountains.

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.

As Cool As the Other Side of a Calvinist

If you know Calvinists, you probably know some bad ones. The stereotypes aren’t fair, but they don’t come out of nowhere. Calvinists are “cold,” “heady,” and “condescending.” They think they have it all figured out and everyone else is blind…

Does Technology Help or Hurt Dating?

Does Technology Help or Hurt Dating?

Technology can help dating relationships, and technology can hurt them. Unfortunately, many assume the former, while living the latter.

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.

Why Gosnell, God? Why Boston?

Why Gosnell, God? Why Boston?

Not long ago, we learned that Kermit Gosnell had been killing babies in the third trimester and even after they were delivered, for decades. Just this week, we watched as bombs ripped through an unsuspecting crowd in downtown Boston. They’re…

Guilty Until Proven Innocent

Guilty Until Proven Innocent

Christians are often divided because we are by nature defensive. Too many divisions in the church — specifically in personal relationships — stem from insecurity and defensiveness in the face of accusation, whether real or imagined. These accusations may fall…

Why God Loves People Who Hate Each Other

Why God Loves People Who Hate Each Other

The church is filled with lots of dangerously different people. There are rich and poor, old and young, male and female. We have families with fifteen children and fifty-year-old unmarrieds. There are Republicans and Democrats, executives and janitors, athletes, artists…

Souls Are Our Reward: Running Well to Win the Lost

Souls Are Our Reward

Running Well to Win the Lost

The prize at the end of the Christian life — the crown we’ll wear and the wreath we’ll receive — is not only God himself, but all the souls we brought with us.

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