Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor.

To be a Christian is a standing, a legal position. It means to be a child of God. You are or you are not, there is no try.

If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.

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.

What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.

We deserve to be forgotten because we forget Him. But because Jesus died on the cross, we will never, ever be forgotten by God.

Jesus Christ doesn’t just give us truths; he is the truth. Jesus Christ is the prophet to end all prophets. He gives us hard-copy words from God, truths on which we can build our lives, truths we have to submit to, truths we have to obey, and truths we have to build our lives on, but he himself is the truth.