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Greg Morse

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.

Strangers to Sin: How Heaven Makes Us Holy

Strangers to Sin

How Heaven Makes Us Holy

Christian, you are not a citizen of this world. You hope for a better home and greater reward. Does this hope help you flee from sin now?

To Gain the World and Lose Your Soul

To Gain the World and Lose Your Soul

There is one item in the world that has no fair trade — the soul. And yet, how many trade the most priceless thing they own to gain mere trifles?

Love Her Less to Love Her More: The Dangers of Idolizing a Wife

Love Her Less to Love Her More

The Dangers of Idolizing a Wife

A husband loves his wife as she ought to be loved — he loves her best — only when he loves her as his wife and not as his god.

Facing a Task Unfinished: A Battle-Hymn for Mission

Facing a Task Unfinished

A Battle-Hymn for Mission

The Great Commission remains an unfinished task, and yet how many feel any urgency to see it completed?

Forget Your First Name: How to Live for Legacy

Forget Your First Name

How to Live for Legacy

We are a generation of first names, of forgotten pasts and rootless family trees. But in Christ, God empowers us to live for something bigger, greater, and far longer lasting.

Keep Watch Over Souls: A One-Verse Charge to Pastors

Keep Watch Over Souls

A One-Verse Charge to Pastors

Hebrews 13:17 offers a solemn and glorious charge to every pastor: keep watch over immortal souls as those who will give an account to Christ.

War Your Way to Heaven

War Your Way to Heaven

The Christian life is one of fierce holiness. Christ calls us to hoist crosses, hack off limbs, gouge out eyes, contend for souls, and wage war against spiritual powers.

Save a Soul from Death: How We Bring Wanderers Back

Save a Soul from Death

How We Bring Wanderers Back

Do you know someone who is wandering away from Jesus? God may have a word for you in the final verses of James, a letter to spiritual wanderers.

Speak to Men Like Men

Speak to Men Like Men

In our overly sensitive society, have we lost the ability to talk to men like men?

The Skies We Die Under: Common Deathbed Deceptions

The Skies We Die Under

Common Deathbed Deceptions

Many hopes make death easier. Many give a sense of life well-lived. Many bring comfort. But only one hope will not prove flattering and false in the end.

The Undistracted Soldier: Six Marks of Christian Manhood

The Undistracted Soldier

Six Marks of Christian Manhood

How might men of God live like the disentangled soldiers God calls us to be? We might learn from the example of a soldier slain for refusing to play civilian.

Throw Yourself Away in Hope: The Sacred Death of Fatherhood

Throw Yourself Away in Hope

The Sacred Death of Fatherhood

Fathers give life through death. They lay themselves down to die, like seeds planted in the earth, trusting that God will grant a future harvest.

Grace Has Taught Our Hearts to Fear

Grace Has Taught Our Hearts to Fear

Many today downplay or dismiss the fear of God. But in one of the Bible’s most staggering promises, God names fear as one of the best gifts of the new covenant.

See Through Enemy Eyes: Expecting Temptation Before It Comes

See Through Enemy Eyes

Expecting Temptation Before It Comes

If you want to discern your most vulnerable points of spiritual attack, try asking, “If I were Satan and wanted to destroy my soul, how would I do it?”

Better Than Our Bitter Thoughts: The God of Surprising Goodness

Better Than Our Bitter Thoughts

The God of Surprising Goodness

Hard and bitter thoughts about God reveal far more about us than about him. He is the good God, the wonderful God, far better than our best thoughts of him.

The Unimpressive Path to Immortality

The Unimpressive Path to Immortality

Does the Christian life feel uncomfortably ordinary a lot of days? Come and remember the startling glory of this narrow, simple path.

To War, to Christ, to Glory

To War, to Christ, to Glory

If God is for us in spiritual war, then who can stand against us? Rise up, men of the cross, sisters of the crown, soldiers of Christ.

Life Is for Living

Life Is for Living

How needful is it to know our end before we get there? How priceless to feel our fleetness before our ship sails?

Uprooting Sensibility: The Plain Speech of Godly Men

Uprooting Sensibility

The Plain Speech of Godly Men

Politeness and niceness are not the only categories of godly speech. Sometimes, the painful word is best, even if it incites offense.

The Gospel of God’s Happiness

The Gospel of God’s Happiness

God was happy before this world existed, and he’ll be happy long after it passes away. Have you been properly introduced to the happiness of heaven?

Hell Is for Real

Hell Is for Real

If we really believed in hell — in eternal, conscious torment — might we have more courage to tell people about Jesus?

Prayers of the Apocalypse

Prayers of the Apocalypse

The Bible tells us that the prayers of the saints will usher in the end of the world. What will those kinds of prayers be like, and how will they come true?

Why Not Me? The Quiet and Consuming Eye of Envy

Why Not Me?

The Quiet and Consuming Eye of Envy

If we let envy have its way with us, the gifts we have fuel pride and the gifts we don’t breed bitterness. How can we train our eyes with grace?

Reality Written in Cursive: The Power of Christian Wordcraft

Reality Written in Cursive

The Power of Christian Wordcraft

While fewer today may realize it, mankind was born for poetry. We were made to find and savor the right words for unspeakable realities.

Ghosts of Christmas: What the Damned Might Say

Ghosts of Christmas

What the Damned Might Say

If the spirits of the damned could visit our Christmas feasts and festive trees, what might they say of our holiday? A story from the Gospels gives us an idea.

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