If you don't feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.

The deeper the experience of the free grace of God, the more generous we must become.

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.

As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.

Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.

God takes our misery and suffering so seriously that he was willing to take it on himself.

To stay away from Christianity because part of the Bible’s teaching is offensive to you assumes that if there is a God he wouldn’t have any views that upset you. Does that belief make sense? If you don’t trust the Bible enough to let it challenge and correct your thinking, how could you ever have a personal relationship with God? In any truly personal relationship, the other person has to be able to contradict you.