If we take our faith seriously and make our way through a difficult marriage in pursuit of witnessing God's reconciling love for a sinful world, then a difficult marriage becomes part of our exercise to prepare us for heaven.

Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial... "Christianity does not therefore depreciate marriage; it sanctifies it."

All that is necessary is a heart dedicated entirely and solely to Him out of love for Him above all others.

I'd rather be killed by you than kept alive by any other man

Get alone with Jesus and either tell Him that you do not want sin to die out in you - or else tell Him that at all costs you want to be identified with His death.

The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.

If you will come back and make that pledge, God will heal your heart tonight.

At that moment, we decided to stop complaining about the church we saw, and we set our hearts on becoming the church we dreamed of.

In some seasons, Jesus asks us, "Will you still love Me when things are not happening the way that you thought they would happen?

The fruit of keeping covenants is the companionship of the Holy Ghost and an increase in the power to love.

Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.

Hope commits us to actions that connect with God's promises. What we call hoping is often only wishing. We want things we think are impossible, but we have better sense than to spend any money or commit our lives to them. Biblical hope, though, is an act—like buying a field in Anathoth. Hope acts on the conviction that God will complete the work that he has begun even when the appearances, especially when the appearances, oppose it.