Secularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you.

Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.

Our prayers should arise out of immersion in the Scripture. [We] speak only to the degree we are spoken to.

The story of Jesus changes our lives because it is true.

Prayer is awe, intimacy, struggle-yet, the way to reality.

If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to merit God's salvation you haven't believed at all, even if you try to do a little bit.

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.