We must not settle for an informed mind without an engaged heart.

I am accepted by God through the work of Jesus Christ - therefore I obey

All life-changing love is inconvenient.

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.

Some suffering is given in order to chastise and correct a person for wrongful patterns of life (as in the case of Jonah imperiled by the storm), some suffering is given not to correct past wrongs but to prevent future ones (as in the case of Joseph sold into slavery), and some suffering has no purpose other than to lead a person to love God more ardently for himself alone and so discover the ultimate peace and freedom.

The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?

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