Marriage does not so much bring you into confrontation with your spouse as confront you with yourself.

God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.

Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.

A sense of Jesus’ absence might be a sign of his presence- a sign that he’s working already in your life.

Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.

If you and your church were to disappear off the face of the earth tomorrow, would anyone in the community around you notice you were gone? And if the community did even notice would they say 'we are really glad they are gone', or 'we are really going to miss them'?

If we are not deliberately thinking about our culture and our context, we will be conformed to it without ever knowing.