The simple fact is that only if I love Jesus more than my wife will I be able to serve her needs ahead of my own.

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

Gifts are abilities God gives us to meet the needs of others in Christ’s name.

If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.

Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.

Jesus Christ as only an example will crush you. You'll never be able to live up to it. But Jesus Christ as the Lamb will save you.

The Christian gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.