Jesus says, "I want you to follow me so fully, so intensely, so enduringly that all other attachments in your life look weak by comparison"

Grace is to be let into a place that you don't have a right to be.

Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.

I hate the moment when suddenly my anger turns into tears

Religion: 'My identity is built on being a good person.' Gospel: 'My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ's.'

Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.

In Ephesians 5, Paul shows us that even on earth Jesus did not use his power to oppress us but sacrificed everything to bring us into union with him. And this takes us beyond the philosophical to the personal and the practical. If God had the gospel of Jesus's salvation in mind when he established marriage, then marriage only 'works' to the degree that approximates the pattern of God's self-giving love in Christ.