Having a girlfriend was no longer my greatest need. Knowing and obeying Him was. I wanted to please Him in my relationships even if it meant looking radical and foolish to other people – even if it meant kissing dating goodbye.
You get up and you preach a sermon and people walk away thinking what a great guy – and that’s a failure as a pastor. Our job is to proclaim Christ.
Dating now is a lot like going shopping when you don’t have any money. Even if you find the right thing, you can’t do anything about it.
Just because lips have met doesn’t mean hearts have joined. And just because two bodies are drawn to each other doesn’t mean two people are right for each other. A physical relationship does not equal love.
God gave people 2 ears and 1 mouth because He wants us to listen twice as much as we talk.
Women need to remember that if nature has made them plain, grace can make them beautiful, and if nature has made them beautiful, good deeds can add to their beauty. Grace will make you beautiful and will attract truly godly men to you. Make godliness and inward beauty your priority.
Terms don’t define our lives; our lives define our terms.
During courtship, guarding each other’s purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaking.
The doctrine of Scripture teaches us about the authority of God’s Word. Scripture must be the final rule of faith and practice for our lives. Not our feelings or emotions. Not signs or prophetic words or hunches.
God will make right all that is wrong, He will take away the lingering effect of sin and what’s not right in our lives. He knows how painful life in this world can be.
The thing about relationships is, when you are in the middle of one, they consume your focus.
A defining reality for me is what Scripture teaches in Hebrews 12, that God is our father, and that a sign that he loves us is that he disciplines us, he takes us through hardship to build character in us that could not be shaped apart from difficulty.
We can each rest in the knowledge that God is sovereign over our life’s situation. No matter where we are today or what mistakes we’ve made in the past, He has given us everything we need to glorify Him right now.
Intimacy without commitment, like icing without cake, can be sweet, but it ends up making us sick.
If you’re not ready to consider marriage or you’re not truly interested in marrying a specific person, it’s selfish and potentially harmful to encourage that person to need you or ask him or her to gratify you emotionally or physically.
Wisdom in relationships involves a selfless desire to do what’s best for the other person.
I am a sucker for romance and I love girls and that is a terrible combination, because romance has the ability to overwhelm your perspective.
You are so amazed by grace, you’re not picking a fight with anyone, you’re just crying tears of amazement that should lead to a heart for lost people, that God does indeed save, when he doesn’t have to save anybody.
I’ve come to learn that theology matters. It matters not because we want to impress people, but because what we know about God shapes the way we think and live. Theology matters because if we get it wrong then our whole life will be wrong.
If you want to grow, find men who provoke you.
I’m looking for someone who will light candles, not just curse the darkness.