Love

God’s Understanding Love

“I have loved thee with an everlasting love” Jeremiah 31:3 “Only by faith can a person interpret the complexities of life. Only a heart rich in faith can find answers to the enigma of ...

Loving God and Loving Jesus

One of the most abused and misused words in the dictionary is the word love. Example: Some people say that they love to drink; others that they love to gamble, or they love sports or money, ...

Respect - A Lost Virtue?

A mixed feeling arises frequently when looking at our world. The technological progress of the last 150 years is breathtaking. Are we still aware the Internet was made available for ...

Something Really Worth Having

(Similar to the Living Bible of 1 Corinthians 13:4-8)"Love is patient and kind..."Yes, even after having said something again and again and again, love doesn't explode, stamp its feet, or toot its ...

Knowing the Father

“No one has seen God at any time.The Only Begotten Son, who is in the bosomof the Father, He has declared Him.” John 1:18 The Son of the Father's love alone was in a position to perfectly ...

Lessons from the Good Samaritan

In the Gospel of Luke, Chapter 10, we find the parable of the Good Samaritan. We are told that an expert in the Mosaic Law stood up to test Jesus by asking Him…”What must I do to inherit eternal ...

Knowing Christ

"I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of know-ing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish that I may gain Christ." Philippians...

Sharing

The story is told of a man who, as he began his noonday meal one day, was approached by a poorly dressed man who said to him, “Will you share your lunch with me? I’m very hungry.” The ...

What Kind of Memories Will We Leave Behind Us?

A New Year seems a good time to resolve to create special memories that we will be able to leave behind us to bless others. If the past year has found us less than faithful in this regard, ...

Love Is -- an Emotion?

Many of us who are under 40 years old are familiar in various degrees with Rock or Pop music. Not many of us understand the subject of love, and the result is that we have adopted meanings about ...

“Greater love has no one than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:14 As we always look to our Lord as the ultimate example of how we must live our lives, we ...

The Grace of God

“For by GRACE you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God...” Ephesians 2:8 “The word grace has a multiplicity of meanings in our daily lives and more ...

People Who Care

People who care are a rarity in this modern world. The busy, complicated lives which we live crowd out our concern, our active care for others. The words spoken by our Lord in Matthew 24:12 are ...