“I am writing specifically as a brother to my brothers. In these articles, I will suggest a number of disciplines meant to help you compete at peak performance and assure you of victory.”

“Act on some of them this month, and let these ideas spur your own creativity for how to help your wife and your marriage flourish.”

“There are plenty of resources that help Christians understand what they believe and why they believe it — and certainly those are vitally important. But it’s equally crucial to know how to engage in a meaningful dialogue with a skeptic or a person from another religious viewpoint.”

“But,” says one, “are we not to have amusements?” Yes, such amusements as you can take in the fear of God. Do what Jesus would have done.” —Charles Spurgeon

“Daniel leaned back with no interest in the meal before him. He’d looked at racy pictures again and the weight of conviction was inescapable. He had confessed his sin to God and to me, but should he confess it to her?”

“At heart, fasting is simple—it is refraining from a specific thing for a specific time and a specific reason. Here are some simple guidelines.”

“When you die, only what’s done for Christ will last. You have one life. Don’t waste it on comfortable, insignificant trifles.”

“As a younger man myself, I have tried to identify how exactly older guys can love, exhort, and invest in younger men around them — men like me. On behalf of other younger men, with humility and boldness, we plead with our older brothers for five things.”

“The first is an issue of remembering all your sins; the second is the issue of a wilful refusal to turn from sin.”

“The home, he says, must limit technology in order to delight in God, neighbor, family, and nature. The church, he says, will not enjoy authentic community unless it disciples Christians in countercultural living when it comes to our TVs, video games, and smartphones.”