A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.

In short, the enlightenment privatized marriage, taking it out of the public sphere, and redefined its purpose as individual gratification, not any 'broader good' such as reflecting God's nature, producing character, or raising children. Slowly but surely, this newer understanding of the meaning of marriage has displaced the older ones in Western culture.

Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially 'deify.' We will look to it with all the passion and intensity of worship and devotion, even if we think ourselves as highly irreligious.

Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin.

The Christian faith gives us a new conception of work as the means by which God loves and cares for his world through us.

The gospel shows a God far more holy than the legalist can bear, yet far more merciful than a humanist can conceive

Jesus was the temple to end all temples, the priest to end all priests, & the sacrifice to end all sacrifices.