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 the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.

While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.

Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.

The primary means-of-reviva l that everyone agrees upon is extraordinary prayer.

The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.

Only if you first seek inner forgiveness will your confrontation be temperate, wise, and gracious. Only when you have lost the need to see the other person hurt will you have any chance of actually bringing about change, reconciliation, and healing. You have to submit to the costly suffering and death of forgiveness if there is going to be any resurrection.