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

Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.

When you experience God it is deeply personal, but it's not at all private.

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."

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

In every other religion the indicative flows from the imperative. Which means, ‘because I do, therefore I am... because I do this, therefore I’m a child of God.’ But only in Christianity does the imperative flow from the indicative. ‘Because I am in Christ all these things, therefore I obey.’ Exactly the opposite.

The church is often like a football stadium where 22 people need a rest and thousands of people need exercise.