[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

The resurrection makes Christianity the most irritating religion on the face of the earth.

If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public.

Within this Christian vision for marriage, here's what it means to fall in love. It is to look at another person and get a glimpse of the person God is creating, and to say, "I see who God is making you, and it excites me! I want to be part of that. I want to partner with you and God in the journey you are taking to his throne."

Repentance is like antiseptic. You pour antiseptic onto a wound and, at first, it stings. Then it heals.

Cities have more “image of God” per square inch than anywhere else, and so we must not idealize the country as somehow a more spiritual place than the city.

Most people want Jesus as a consultant rather than a King, and He does not come that way.