To the extent that you use authority to manage your own…

“It’s as if we believe the general duties of love are fundamentally different from our specific duties as husbands and wives.”

— Winston T. Smith

“Your actions, regardless of their effect on others, always change you, either leading you to become a more loving person or a more hardened,…

— Winston T. Smith

“But the way we exercise authority and define our marital roles often doesn’t seem informed by a biblical understanding of love at all. Some…

— Winston T. Smith

“We need to be careful not to read the challenges of our own hearts, our personal assumptions, and our cultural assumptions about gender into…

— Winston T. Smith

“We sometimes refer to our spouses as our other or better half. The expression suggests that our spouses complete us. Although a sweet idea,…

— Winston T. Smith

“the most critical ingredient of an intimate relationship is trust. You have to know that the other person means what he or she says,…

— Winston T. Smith

“Remember what sin and idolatry are really about: attempts to play God, to make everything and everyone serve you and your desires. To sin…

— Winston T. Smith

“Because we’re made in God’s image we can’t fully escape knowledge of ourselves, and of God’s purity, holiness, and wrath. We were made to…

— Winston T. Smith

“Jesus didn’t just tolerate the sinners that thronged to him; he reached out and touched them. He visited tax collectors in their homes; invited…

— Winston T. Smith

“God encourages his people, not by denying the beauty and grandeur of the previous temple but by pointing them to how he intends to…

— Winston T. Smith

“We’re accustomed to thinking about love as an emotion or an experience that happens to us, but the Bible teaches us that love isn’t…

— Winston T. Smith

“don’t just wish things were different. Don’t just look for the easy way out. Don’t let go until you get every blessing that God…

— Winston T. Smith

“Notice that God “places enmity” between Satan and Eve’s offspring. We struggle against sin, hating it in ourselves. If God hadn’t placed enmity between…

— Winston T. Smith

“Inviting others to change by reminding them of their true identity is God’s trademark. If we expand our study of Ephesians beyond chapter 4,…

— Winston T. Smith

“Jesus’ purpose in helping us to understand God’s law isn’t to urge us to try harder. He knows we’re incapable of keeping the law.…

— Winston T. Smith