If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural. On what basis, then, does the atheist judge the natural world to be horribly wrong, unfair, and unjust?

[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

It seems almost oxymoronic to believe that this new idealism has led to a new pessimism about marriage, but that is exactly what has happened. In generations past there was far less talk about "compatibility" and finding the ideal soul mate. Today we are looking for someone who accepts us as we are and fulfills our desires, and this creates an unrealistic set of expectations that frustrates both the searchers and the searched for.

God loves you just because He loves you.

We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.

The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.

...the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.