Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love.

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.

Prayer turns theology into experience.

Out of the cross comes the resurrection. Out of weakness comes real strength.

To say doctrine doesn't matter, only how you live matters, is itself a doctrine. It's the doctrine of salvation by works.

Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.

It is possible to avoid Jesus as Savior as much by keeping all the Biblical rules as by breaking them.