Rejoicing and repentance must go together. Repentance without rejoicing will lead to despair. Rejoicing without repentance is shallow and will only provide passing inspiration instead of deep change.

How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.

Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.

While marriage is many things, it is anything but sentimental. Marriage is glorious but hard. It's a burning joy and strength, and yet it is also blood, sweat, and tears; humbling defeats and exhausting victories.

While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.

Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."

We must neither confuse evangelism with doing justice, nor separate them from one another.