Reconciliation is not to be withheld when repentance—that is, deep, heart‐changing acknowledgement of sin and a radical redirection of life—takes place in the one being rebuked. Nor is reconciliation to be extended to someone who has not repented.

Courage never takes away fear; courage simply redistributes fear to get the job done.

The desire for beauty, the hunger for union, the passion to be part of something greater than self, all arise out of our bent to worship.

Life is war, and marriage provides us with a close and intimate ally with whom we may wage this war. The battle requires bold love, forgiveness, confrontation, and repentance.

So take seriously the story that God has given you to live. It’s time to read your own life, because your story is the one that could set us all ablaze.

Every marriage moves either toward enhancing one another’s glory or toward degrading each other.

What originally led us to serve others by leading them seldom remains our North Star.