God's reckless grace is our greatest hope.

You are worse than you think you are, but also far more loved than you feel you are.

The greatness of prayer is nothing but an extension of the greatness and glory of God in our lives To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule - it is a failure to treat God as God. It is a sin against his glory

When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.

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

Whatever you base your life on--you have to live up to that. Jesus is the one Lord you can live for who already died for you.

In Ephesians 5, Paul shows us that even on earth Jesus did not use his power to oppress us but sacrificed everything to bring us into union with him. And this takes us beyond the philosophical to the personal and the practical. If God had the gospel of Jesus's salvation in mind when he established marriage, then marriage only 'works' to the degree that approximates the pattern of God's self-giving love in Christ.