To say doctrine doesn't matter, only how you live matters, is itself a doctrine. It's the doctrine of salvation by works.

Everyone worships something. The only choice you get is what to worship.

Your feelings come from where you find your hope. Where is your happiness and your significance?

Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but where life is what it was always meant to be.

When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride.

Change won’t happen through ‘trying harder’ but only through encountering the radical grace of God.

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.