Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.

Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us.

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

Honor the image of God. Human beings are not accidents, but creations.

Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.

Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on the faculties that put that action forth. When you sin with the mind, that sin shrivels the rationality. When you sin with the heart or the emotions, that sin shrivels the emotions. When you sin with the will, that sin destroys and dissolves your willpower and your self-control. Sin is the suicidal action of the self against itself. Sin destroys freedom because sin is an enslaving power.

Through the person and work of Jesus Christ, God fully accomplishes salvation for us, rescuing us from judgment for sin into fellowship with him, and then restores the creation in which we can enjoy our new life together with him forever.