Christmas means Jesus came down and got involved in suffering. He hears your cries.

Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.

In short, the enlightenment privatized marriage, taking it out of the public sphere, and redefined its purpose as individual gratification, not any 'broader good' such as reflecting God's nature, producing character, or raising children. Slowly but surely, this newer understanding of the meaning of marriage has displaced the older ones in Western culture.

Power, approval, comfort, and control are meta-idols that hold sway over our daily lives.

When people say, "God is love," I think they mean that love is extremely important, or that God really wants us to love. But in Christian conception, God really has love as his essence.

How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship

We are free to fight sin, and free to win; but we must still fight.