Whatever you base your life on--you have to live up to that. Jesus is the one Lord you can live for who already died for you.

Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.

Our culture says that feelings of love are the basis for actions of love. And of course that can be true. But it is truer to say that actions of love can lead consistently to feelings of love.

Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty.

Life in this fallen world is to a great degree meaningless, our aspirations are constantly being frustrated, and sometimes the respectable people are oppressive and bigoted. And yet there is a Good that will triumph over Evil in the end. From a Christian perspective the problem with both kinds of stories is that they tend to blame problems on things besides sin and identify salvation in things besides God — and therefore are ultimately too simplistic.

[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

Unless you believe the gospel, everything you do will be driven by either pride or fear.