The more you understand how your salvation isn't about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.

The simple fact is that only if I love Jesus more than my wife will I be able to serve her needs ahead of my own.

Because sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge just as each son sought to displace the authority of the father in his own life.

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.

Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation.

I am God and I am coming to find you.

Marriage is two broken people having little broken people.