While marriage is many things, it is anything but sentimental. Marriage is glorious but hard. It's a burning joy and strength, and yet it is also blood, sweat, and tears; humbling defeats and exhausting victories.

We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely - and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.

Jesus Christ doesn’t just give us truths; he is the truth. Jesus Christ is the prophet to end all prophets. He gives us hard-copy words from God, truths on which we can build our lives, truths we have to submit to, truths we have to obey, and truths we have to build our lives on, but he himself is the truth.

Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn’t mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness.

The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.

You are under-qualified for the job of God.

You can't live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.