humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

James says, "You desire and do not have; so you kill" (Jas. 4:2). We kill marriages and we kill unborn babies because they cut across our desires; they stand in the way of our unencumbered self-enhancement. And we live in a culture where self-enhancement and self-advancement is god. And if self-enhancement is god, then the One who is at work in the womb shaping a person in His own image is not God and the assault on His work is not sacrilegious, but obedience to the god of self.

Jesus' teaching in general [implies] that happy and fulfilling sexual relations in marriage depend on each partner aiming to give satisfaction to the other. If it is the joy of each to make the other happy, a hundred problems will be solved before they happen.

O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.

I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.

You get one pass at life. That’s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.

The call of God creates sight in us. It's the work of God in our hearts to awaken us before his word.