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

Putting our faith in Christ is not about trying harder; it means transferring our trust away from ourselves and resting in him.

I think these younger Christians are the vanguard of some major new religious, social, and political arrangements that could make the older form of culture wars obsolete. After they wrestle with doubts and objections to Christianity many come out on the other side with an orthodox faith that doesn't fit the current categories of liberal Democrat or conservative Republican.

We only fully grasp the gospel when we understand, as Paul did, that we are the worst sinner we know

In short, the enlightenment privatized marriage, taking it out of the public sphere, and redefined its purpose as individual gratification, not any 'broader good' such as reflecting God's nature, producing character, or raising children. Slowly but surely, this newer understanding of the meaning of marriage has displaced the older ones in Western culture.

Marriage is two broken people having little broken people.

You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.