Jesus, could you please rapture the charismaniac lady who brings her tambourine to church?

Don't cohabitate. Don't fornicate. Don't look at pornography. Don't create a standard of beauty. Have your spouse be your standard of beauty. This is one of the great devastating effects of pornography: you lust after people and compare your spouse to them. It's impossible to be satisfied in your marriage if you don't have a standard that is biblical; that standard is always your spouse.

Repentance keeps sin from condemning us because Jesus died and scorned the shame.

God loves you enough to receive you as you are. He loves you too much to keep you as you are.

Everything in the service needs to preach - architecture, lighting, songs, prayers, fellowship, the smell - it all preaches. All five senses must be engaged to experience God.

Study the Bible like a soldier on a mission, not a scholar on a sabbatical.

A pacifist has a lot of difficulty reconciling pacifism with scripture.