“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 of the most basic elements of love drop out of the picture once we start talking… — 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
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
