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.

Strength is found in weakness. Control is found in dependency. Power is found in surrender.

For most leaders, humility comes only by wounds suffered from foolish falls.

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.

[Biblical counseling] Must insist that the image of God is central to developing a solid view of personality; that our sinfulness, not how we've been sinned against, is our biggest problem; that forgiveness, not wholeness, is our greatest need; that repentance, not insight, is the dynamic in all real change.

The work of restoration cannot begin until a problem is fully faced.

Every addiction is an attempt to slay hope.