Posts with the tag “love”

[Encountering The Father] 1 Corinthians 13:8-13 - As Christians, godly love is a skill. And it is a skill that we need to strengthen with daily practice. . .  Read More

[Daily Journal] Hebrews 10:24-25 - I was thinking about how important it is to lock arms with a fellow Christ-follower or two or three and follow Jesus together. . .  Read More

One of my favorite bible stories is the story of how Jesus miraculously multiplied the loaves and fish. . . .  Read More

Our lives are meant to be offered as a gift to God. It is the only way that we can express our fullest gratitude for all that God has given to us freely. . . .  Read More

In this battle that we are waging in order to live in agape love, we don’t fight with more effort. We don’t fight with psychology. We don’t fight with religion. We don’t with cleaning ourselves up or trying harder. We fight with God’s divine power.  Read More

As Christians, Godly love is a skill we need to strengthen with daily practice. We must learn and train ourselves to do everything with love. . . .  Read More

I will be the first person to admit that change terrifies me. It is something I am asking God to help me with. I am afraid of the unknown. I am afraid of having the rug pulled out from under me. I am paralyzed with fear when I think about my life losing any type of stability or predictability. . . .  Read More

As I was pulling out my laptop to work on today’s devotional, the waitress at the diner I am working from came over to tell me that an older woman had already paid for my breakfast.  Read More

To this day, the worst gift I’ve ever received was a Furby. A horrid little fuzzy robot with creepy, blinking bug eyes and the most obnoxious voice.  Read More

Jesus is not asking us to try really hard to clean up our own life, or be religious, or obey a list of to-dos. The transformation of our lives comes through a love relationship with him.  Read More

Jesus gives his Disciples, and us, a prioritized commandment. Jesus says we are to love each other just as or in the same way and to the same extent that he has loved us. And then he gives the why. But what does it all mean to us in our real lives?  Read More