Christmas is telling you that you could never get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you.

The key to continual and deeper spiritual renewal and revival is the continual re-discovery of the gospel.

There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor.

Paul reminds us that in the Gospel we are both brought lower and raised higher than we can imagine.

To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.

Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.

Both men and women today see marriage not as a way of creating character and community but as a way to reach personal life goals. They are looking for a marriage partner who will 'fulfill their emotional, sexual, and spiritual desires.' And that creates an extreme idealism that in turn leads to a deep pessimism that you will ever find the right person to marry.