...it is symptomatic of human sin and rebellion that we confuse God's good things with ultimate things. We always resist worshipping and honoring him. We prefer comfort to submission. So we take God's stuff and try to ditch God.

Natural doesn't automatically mean good... every one of us was born sinful.

Our moral code prizes 'do no harm.' It emphasizes the utilitarian spirit - what maximizes happiness for the greatest number of people?

To come to Christ is not merely an individual affair. It will fracture deep ties among people who have become so close that they are felt to be family.

What is the motivation to obey a law that seems nonsensical? It can only be deep trust in the one who asks.

My life has told a different story than what society expects for me and what I expected for myself, because God himself has written his own twists and turns into the narrative, unexpected blessings that are more powerful, more lovely, than anything I could have imagined in my former life.

Singleness for the Christian testifies to the sufficiency of Christ - to the world and to the church.

...sin loves to grow in secrecy.

We are never promised relief from the presence of dangerous desires, but we are promised power to fight victoriously (1 Corinthians 10:13).

The designed purpose of marriage is to illustrate metaphorically God's relationship to his people... A marriage is complex, and fails if it lacks a crucial part. A marriage cannot rightly depict God's relationship with his people if it lacks faithfulness, or pleasure, or fruitfulness - or sex difference. The metaphor demands it.