God’s Sacrificial Love When it comes to human love we like to see more action behind the words. As the saying goes, “Action speaks louder than words.” The Bible is full of God’s words of love for us, but God also put those words into action when He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to suffer […]

Don’t Live Below The Privileges God has given to us great gifts, much more than we deserve. Take a moment and look at some of the marvelous privileges available to us as believers in Jesus Christ. God’s Gift of Grace: “For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God […]

God’s Love is Frightening During the Welsh Revival, a Welshman was praying in English but still thinking in his native tongue. When he began to quote Psalm 130:4 which says, “But there is forgiveness with You, that You may be feared,” he stumbled trying to find the right words. Eventually he brought forth this translation. […]

Follow the Yellow Brick Road “Our spiritual journey is analogous to Dorothy’s journey in the “Wizard of Oz” by Frank Baum. “The journey we’re on from this world to God’s heavenly home, we need what the three characters with Dorothy discovered within themselves: the Scarecrow’s wisdom, the Tin Man’s love and compassion, and the Lion’s […]

Love: the Great Essential What is an essential? In life it’s water, food, and air. In school it’s reading, writing, and arithmetic. In baseball it’s hitting, pitching, and fielding. In basketball it’s offence, defense, and will you please make a foul shot. Webster’s defines essentials as relating to or constituting the essence of something, and […]

Love: The Great Apologetic Whenever we hear the word “apology” we think of its more common usage, which is “an admission of error, or the acknowledging of a fault.” But the term “apologetics” comes from the Greek word that literally means to speak in defense of something. Early Christians who defended the faith were then […]

Love: the Great Authenticator Seeing that love is life’s driving priority, Jesus has several things to say about it. We’ve seen how love is God’s Great Commandment, and it’s through our love that we authenticate God’s call upon our lives. Jesus said that it’s love that demonstrates to the world that our faith is real. […]

Love: the Great Commandment Love is life’s driving priority. Jesus made love life’s defining principle. He does so in several ways. The first way is stating that our love for God and for others is the first and greatest commandment. “‘And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your […]

Love: Life’s Driving Priority For centuries, if not millenniums people have been looking for love. And if I could borrow the lyrics and title from an old country western song, they’ve been looking for love in all the wrong places. How else can we explain the record setting number of divorces, the increase in pornography, […]

It Isn’t All About You Many have the wrong spirit when they come to church. They come to church wanting to receive without any obligation to give. People come expecting to be served and to receive something for their life, but they’re never willing to give unto others in return. But this is not how […]