Whether we are husband or wife, we are not to live for ourselves but for the other. And that is the hardest yet single most important function of being a husband or a wife in marriage. Paul
When you see the problems in each other, do you just want to run away, or do you find a desire to work on them together? If the second impulse is yours, then you have the makings of a marriage. Do you...
When you indulge yourself in bitter thought, it feels so satisfying to fantasize about payback. But slowly and surely it will enlarge your capacity for self-pity, erode your ability to trust and enjoy...
When God is asked: Remember your great mercy and love, he is being asked to act according to his character. When someone asks God to remember not [my] sins, he or she is asking that God would not act...
Tremendous freedom comes when we can laugh at ourselves and whisper to him, So! It's been you all along! In some ways that day will be the true beginning of your career as a preacher and teacher of Go...
To summarize this point—Luther says we should start with meditation on a text we have previously studied, then after praising and confessing in accordance with our meditation, we should paraphrase the...
Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow travelers.
The second thing Mary does is to express her doubts openly.
The principle: God speaks to us in his Word, and we respond in prayer, entering into the divine conversation, into communion with God.
The gospel assures me that God cares about everything I do and will listen to my prayers. He may not answer them the way I want, but if he doesn’t it is because he knows things I do not.
The gospel assures me that God cares about everything I do and will listen to my prayers. He may not answer them the way I want, but if he doesn’t it is because he knows things I do not. My degree of...
The church of Jesus Christ is therefore like the ocean. It is enormous and diverse. Like the ocean there are warm and clear spots and deadly cold spots, places you can enter easily without danger and...
That is why even when we believe with all our minds that life is meaningless, we simply can’t live that way. We know better.
Regret is sorrow over the consequences of a sin, but not over the sin itself. If there had been no consequences, there would have been no sorrow. There is no sorrow over the sin for what it is in itse...
Our pleasure and our duty, though opposite before, since we have seen his beauty, are joined to part no more.36
Meditate on these things, and the truth will change your identity. It will convince you of your real, inestimable value.
Marriage does and should somewhat limit the extent of friendships you have with others of the opposite sex. In Christian community, however, singles can have a greater range of friendships among both...
Many say that it is ethnocentric to claim that our religion is superior to others. Yet isn't that very statement ethnocentric? Most non-Western cultures have no problem saying that their culture and r...
Lord, when I forget the Gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others. I hear all criticism as a condemnation of my very being. But you have said that there is now no condemnation f...
Jesus not only preached the word, but also healed the sick, fed the hungry, and cared for the needs of the poor.