Quotes about Relationship

Abba is best translated "Dear Father." It is a term of intimacy, but it also contains a sense of obedience.

Asked to describe the Holy One, Jesus told the story of the father whose bond with his son, no matter the son's unworthiness, was unbreakable.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Anyone can believe God exists but still maintain a life apart from him.

Any counseling that does not pursue spiritual formation through an intimate relationship with Jesus by faith as one of its chief goals is not worthy to be called BIBLICAL counseling.

The people sang to the Lord, not about Him.

Church was never intended to be a place where we serve God to the exclusion of meeting with Him.

Given the impossibility of not failing one another, when the Bible says, "We all stumble in many ways," the only way forward in loving community with one another is forgiveness.

Too often Jesus Christ was not my Master but a bystander I visited with at church occasionally.

When it comes to biblical counseling, friendship is central to the counseling relationship because it is a key aspect of the Gospel. Paul's words display it; Jesus' actions approve it. In Jesus Christ, friendship has its ultimate — that is, it's paradigmatic — display. He sacrificially gave Himself for the good of those he befriended — people who were awkward and troubled types, people who did not offer Him anything particularly desirable in return.

Watch out for the people who say that all is good between them and God but have no interest in being reconciled with the people whom their sin has injured.

Paternity is a long way from fatherhood.