Love is Sacrificial
Read: 1 Corinthians 13:5 In a world that says, “I want it my way,” lovers must learn to say, “Not my way, but yours.” I continue to be impressed by the way the great love song of the Bible explains what love is by describing what love does. Here is love’s definition: “Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous […]
Love is Humble
Read: 1 Corinthians 13:4, 5 Humility—it is an attractive quality in anyone, but it is especially becoming in those who love. Love, the love God both shows toward us and inspires in us, is humble. In saying that, I do not mean that love is lowly or ordinary or simple or humdrum. On the contrary, love […]
Love is the Greatest Virtue
READ : 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13 is well worth memorizing. It upgrades love to the top of the list of Christian virtues. In the Corinthian Church some were bragging about their spiritual gifts. Love is more important than all […]
Overflowing With Hope
Read: Romans 15:7-13 Do you know what the rarest and most precious commodity on earth is? No, it’s not gold or diamonds, not oil or uranium; it’s hope. For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope . […]
Benefits of Believing
Read: Romans 5:1-5 When the American writer Henry David Thoreau lay on his deathbed, an old aunt came to him and asked if he had made his peace with God. “Madam,” he is supposed to have replied, “I was not aware we had quarrelled.” Therefore since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with […]
Reflections on Noah’s Ark
READ : Genesis 7:11-16 They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life. And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him. And the Lord shut him in. God’s instructions to Noah also called for sealing […]
The Shepherd’s Heart
Read: John 10:11-15 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. He who is a hireling and not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. He flees because he is […]
Child of Destiny
Read: Luke 2:34-35 And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is spoken against (and a sword will pierce through your own soul also), that thoughts out of many hearts may be revealed.” (Luke 2:34,35 RSV) […]
God Wants the Best for You
Read: 1 Timothy 2:1-4 First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for everyone, for kings and all who are in high positions, so that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and dignity. This is right and is acceptable in the sight of God our […]