“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, we see that the entire letter is organized around the principle of asking people to become… — Winston T. Smith Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“To the extent that you use authority to manage your own fears and feed your own desires, you’re subverting Jesus’ authority and enthroning yourself.” — Winston T. Smith Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
