Accepted in Christ, we now run the race 'for the joy that is set before us' rather than 'for fear that comes behind us'.

A Christian is one who stops working to be saved, not one who stops working!

Christians don't believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it's exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God.

If you have a small view of your sin, God's grace will be small to you.

All life-changing love is inconvenient.

One of the signs that you may not grasp the unique, radical nature of the gospel is that you are certain that you do.

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.