The determining factor in our relationship with God is not our past but Christ's past.

There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'

Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin. Without the gospel we’re motivated through all sorts of awful fear and pride to change and it doesn’t really change our hearts; it just restrains our hearts.

Within this Christian vision for marriage, here's what it means to fall in love. It is to look at another person and get a glimpse of the person God is creating, and to say, "I see who God is making you, and it excites me! I want to be part of that. I want to partner with you and God in the journey you are taking to his throne."

When Jesus got the big questions, he didn't present arguments. He presented himself.

Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love.

Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms.