If God is truly the greatest good on this earth, would He be loving us if He didn’t draw us toward what is best for us (even if that happens to be Himself)? Doesn’t His courting, luring, pushing, calling and even ‘threatening’ demonstrate His love? If He didn’t do all of that, wouldn’t we accuse Him of being unloving in the end, when all things are revealed?

I could be wrong about salvation. I could be wrong about a lot of things.

Lukewarm people do not live by faith; their lives are structured so that they don't have to.

Allow God to be as creative with you as He is with each of us.

God's art speaks of Himself, reflecting who He is and what He is like.

We are not alone. Even now there are thousands of beings in heaven watching what is going on down here—a ‘great cloud of witnesses,’ the Scripture says. It reminds me that there is so much more to our existence than what we can see. What we do reverberates through the heavens and into eternity.

Our lives should be more than just focusing on our marriage but on focusing our marriage toward what God's mission is for us as a couple.