To the degree you experience God's love towards you - seeing you as beautiful and radiant - to that degree sex won't ruin your life.

Important reminder: It's not fair of you to demand more proof of Christians for their beliefs than you demand for your own.

A lack of generosity refuses to acknowledge that your assets are not really yours, but God's.

Even if our own troubles are great, we should still serve. Jesus washed His disciples feet on the way to the cross.

Grace is the free, unmerited favor of God, working powerfully on the mind and heart to change lives.

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.

God takes our misery and suffering so seriously that he was willing to take it on himself.