God’s Love

Visible Gospel

Adoption, Child of God, Christianity, God's Love, Love, The Gospel

Christian music artist Steven Curtis Chapman has adopted three daughters from China. He calls adoption “visible gospel” and says, “Until we adopted Shaohannah, I…

Ask Again

Asking, Children of God, God Our Father, God's Love, Persistence, Prayer, Praying, Welcome

Pastor Matt Chandler’s thoughts on prayer give us a powerful image of God’s eagerness to hear from us, His children: “[A biblical view of…

Too Easily Pleased

C.S. Lewis, Complacency, Distractions, God's Love, Idols, Love

Far too often, we are far too easily pleased. Even though God offers us uncoditional love, we satisfy ourselves with something far less than…

Lean On The Truth

Confidence, Forgiveness, God's Love, Grace, Identity, Identity in Christ, Mistakes, Truth

Have you ever made a mistake at work? Maybe it was a day that you were just off or were having a bad day….

Our Need For Grace

Forgiveness, God's Love, Grace, Love, New Creation, New Life, Salvation, Sanctification, Sin, Struggles

Brennan Manning was a Franciscan priest who struggled with alcoholism. Eventually, his alcoholism led him out of the priesthood. It may come as a…

He Truly Cares

Aslan, C.S. Lewis, Care, Compassion, God's Love, Healing, Prayer, Unanswered Prayer

Pete Greig relates a story and quotes from C. S. Lewis’s The Magician’s Nephew. In the book, a boy named Digory begs the Lion,…

Try to Remember

Comfort, Deuteronomy 4:9, God With Us, God's Faithfulness, God's Love, Meditation, Remembering, Reminders, Thinking, Thought life, Trials

How good is your memory? Do you walk into a room and forget why you came there in the first place? We memorize things…

Before & After

Death, Destruction, Fixer UPper, God's Love, Grace, Life, Mercy, New Life, Repentance, Restoration, Salvation, Sin

This before-and-after photo comparison from the TV show Fixer Upper shows the incredible restoration of an old, dilapidated house (https://www.hgtv.com/shows/fixer-upper/fixer-upper-takes-on-a-vintage-tiny-house-pictures). This isn’t just an…

Persistent Love

1 John 3:1, 1 John 4:19, Ephesians 2:4-5, God's Love, John 3:16, Love, Persistence, Psalm 136:26, Psalm 86:15, Pursuit, Romans 5:8Faithful, Steadfast Love, The Heart

The Arkansas River, which begins in Leadville, Colorado, snakes through the mountains for 152 miles with an elevation drop of 4,650 feet (“The Arkansas River,”…

Eye-Opening Symbols

God's Faithfulness, God's Love, Hosea, Hosea 1:2, Hosea 3:1, Imagery, Isaiah 32:3, Israel, Matthew 11:15, Obedience, Romans 9:25, Symbols

Have you ever heard of, or participated in, the project from grade school that required carrying around an egg for a week? In this…

Tamed

1 Corinthians 10:13, 1 Corinthians 15:52, 1 John 5:4, Already And Not Yet, Conquer, Fallen World, Genesis 4:7, God's Love, Hope, John 16:33, Protection, Romans 8:37, Romans 8:38-39, Spiritual Attack, Tamed, Victory

Until Jesus comes again, we will still face threats of spiritual attack. But there’s an important way to distinguish these continued threats from the…

Safe In Christ

1 John 4:16, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Fears, Galatians 3:26, God's Love, In Christ, John 3:16, Opposition, Romans 5:8, Romans 8:38-39, Safety, Salvation, Security, Victory

Romans 8:38-39 gives an exhaustive list intended to cover every possible fear we could have—issues of mortality, supernatural forces, time, powers, physical space, anything…

What God Has Done

1 Corinthians 2:9, 1 John 3:2, 2 Peter 1:10-11, Conqueror, Death, Eternity, Fear, God's Love, Gratitude, Micah 4:4, Mighty, Praise, Revelation 21:4, Strength, Victor

“It is not possible, wonderful Lord, to express in human speech the depths of our gratitude to God for the preciousness of the hope…

The Holiness of God

1 Peter 1:16, Affection, Attribute, Awe, Character, God's Holiness, God's Love, Habakkuk 1:13, Isaiah 43:15, Isaiah 57:15, Isaiah 6:3, Meaning, Overlook, Overwhelming, Repetition

In an adapted excerpt from his book, Yawning at Tigers: You Can’t Tame God So Stop Trying, Drew Dyck writes, “The cruel irony of…

An Unconventional Family

1 Corinthians 12:26, 1 John 3:1-2, Acceptance, Choice, Difference, Embrace, Ephesians 2:19-22, Family, Family of God, Galatians 6:10, God's Love, John 13:34, Odd, Unconventional, Unique

Everyone has an unconventional family member. Call them what you will—odd, crazy, or unique. Here’s the big problem. You didn’t get to choose for…

A Just Gospel

Acts 20:35, Community, Galatians 2:10, God's Love, Hope, Justice, Justification, Loving the Poor, Loving the Vulnerable, Luke 14:12-14, Matthew 5:42, Neighbor, Proverbs 19:17, Social Justice, The Gospel

In an article for the Reformed African American Network, Charles Holmes Jr. shares how the gospel can inform the church’s call to social justice….

The Teeth of Suffering

1 Peter 5:10, 2 Corinthians 1:3, 2 Corinthians 4:17, Discipleship, God's Love, Love, Nature, Presence, Protection, Romans 5:3-4, Romans 8:18, Sovereignty, Suffering, Tragedy, Vision

“Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering. The love of God…

On The Other Side

2 Corinthians 4:8-10, Comfort, God's Healing, God's Love, God's power, James 1:2-4, John 16:33, Loss, Preaching, Revelation 21:4, Romans 5:3-5, Suffering, Suicide, Sustain, Tragedy

When Rick Warren preached his first sermon after the suicide of his son, Matthew, the world was watching. Hearing how the pastor talked about…

Hope Is Powerful

1 Thessalonians 1:3, 1 Thessalonians 4:13, 1 Timothy 1:1, 1 Timothy 4:10, 1 Timothy 6:17, Colossians 1:23, Comfort, Failure, God's Love, Grace, Hebrews 6:19, Hope, Hopeful, Peace, Purpose, Titus 1:2, Titus 3:7, Unfailing Love

Hope is powerful. In this clip from the film To End All Wars, prisoners of war tell us just how important hope is to…

A Mother’s Love

Faithfulness, God's Love, Hebrews 12:7-11, Image Bearers, Imperfect, Jars of Clay, Luke 11:13, Matthew 6:26-27, Matthew 7:11, Motherhood, Parenting, Peace, Psalm 103:13, Reflection, Sharing, Vessels

“The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge The…

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