God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?

In the end, we love people into belief. We do not argue them into belief.

If you're a Christian how do you deal with stress without Jesus? You don't.

What the heart most wants, the mind finds reasonable, the will finds doable, and the emotions find desirable.

If you have to run away from something that used to be an idol, you're actually still enslaved by it. It's still controlling you.

Jesus's teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing , religious people of his day.

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.