The gospel has supernatural versatility to address the particular hopes, fears, and idols of every culture and every person.

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

Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all the circumstances in your life around you are filled with trouble and weakness, it won't matter. You will be able to move out into the world in strength.

To the degree you experience God's love towards you - seeing you as beautiful and radiant - to that degree sex won't ruin your life.

Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms.

Occasionally God rips aside the veil, and you begin to see this very fact: All things happen for you. All things. Everything is knit together.

All life-changing love is inconvenient.