Prayer is a recognition of the greatness of our God.

Christmas is an invitation by God to say: Look what I've done to come near to you. Now draw near to me...I want to be a friend.

Marriage is so much like salvation and our relationship with Christ that you can’t understand marriage w/o looking at the gospel.

The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.

Whatever you base your life on--you have to live up to that. Jesus is the one Lord you can live for who already died for you.

If we are deeply moved by the sight of his love for us, it detaches our hearts from other would-be saviors. We stop trying to redeem ourselves through our pursuits and relationships, because we are already redeemed. We stop trying to make others into saviors, because we have a Savior.

An idol is something that we look to for things that only God can give. Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when doctrinal truth is elevated to the position of a false god. This occurs when people rely on the rightness of their doctrine for their standing with God rather than on God himself and his grace. It is a subtly but deadly mistake. The sign that you have slipped into this form of self-justification is that you become what the book of Proverbs calls a 'scoffer'.