“Remember what sin and idolatry are really about: attempts to play God, to make everything and everyone serve you and your desires. To sin is to treat people as objects. It simply isn’t safe to live openly before someone who’s… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
