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What Love Looks Like

Generosity, Giving, Love, Sacrifice, Serving Others

What is one of the ultimate expressions of love? Sacrifice. We might think of the direst of examples, like laying down your life for…

Freedom In Love

Freedom, Love, Priorities, Treasure

Keller writes, “What is the environment that liberates us if we confine ourselves to it, like water liberates the fish? Love. Love is the most…

Soul Mate

God, gods, Idolatry, Love, Marriage, Purpose, Relationship with God, Soul mate

The online dating company eHarmony markets the idea of a soul mate, in commercials like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qRPH-fa2tE. But sometimes the soul mate idea…

Our Father

Care, Discipline, Father, God Our Father, Heavenly Father, Love, Maturity, Wisdom

Think of a loving, human father and his young son. There are things the son does not (and cannot) understand at this point in…

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…

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…

What Makes A Marriage?

Commitment, Love, Loving God, Marriage, Relationship, Relationship with God

Our relationship with God can be compared with a marriage. What makes a marriage? Is it posting on social media about date nights and…

Left Out

Forgiveness, Good News, Grace, Hurt, Inclusion, Inclusiveness, Love, The Gospel

Have you ever been in a situation where you were left out and were hurt because you wanted to be included? Perhaps this question…

Heading West

Christians, Greatest Commandments, Love, Loving Others, Neighbors, Serving, Serving Others, Unconditional Love

A teacher tells a story about one her students named Billy: “Billy was the resident cowboy of my kindergarten class, coming to school each…

Becoming Human

Beauty & The Beast, Church, Community, Human, Humanity, Individualism, Love, Movies, Redemption

In the live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, we see the challenges that isolation and an unhealthy community can cause. “Initially, the most…

Meeting Needs

Belonging, Community, Generosity, Love, Loving Others, Needs, Serving Others, The Church, The Early Church

A benefit from the communion of the saints is the benefit of provision. That is present in Acts 2:44–45. This is a description of…

Son Of Hope

Criminal, David Berkowitz, God's Saving Grace, Grace, Love, Lover Our Enemies, Paul, Persecuter, Persecution, Prison, Prisoner, Redemption, Repentance, Salvation, Saul, Shooter, Shooting, Son of Hope, Son of Sam

The grace and love of Christ can still change a persecutor of Christians, as with Saul who became Paul, to the vilest of sinners,…

“I’m Stuffed”

Father, Generosity, Giving, Leadership, Love, Selflessness

Leadership involves sacrifice. This scene from the movie Cinderella Man shows what personal sacrifice looks like and how, sometimes when you are leading, you…

Wherever You Go

Change, God's Purpose, Interruptions, Kindness, Love, Ministry, Purpose, Thomas a Kempis, Wherever You Go

You don’t need to make a huge move or change in order to begin living in the purpose that God has for you right…

Compelling Conversions

2 Peter 3:9, Acts 3:19, Conversion, Ephesians 1:7, Evangelism, Faith, Galatians 2:20, Galatians 3:13, Grace, Hebrews 9:15, Isaiah 44:22, John 10:10, John 3:16, Love, Redemption, Salvation, Stories, Witnessing

God’s grace, redemption, and abounding love is offered to all of us no matter our backgrounds, past mistakes or the struggles we face. Christianity…

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,”…

Reckless Mercy

2 Corinthians 12:8-9, 2 Peter 1:2, Comforter, Ephesians 2:8-9, Ephesians 4:7, Forgiveness, Grace, John 1:14, Love, Mercy, Redemption, Romans 3:20-24

My Refuge House is a home for survivors of commercial sexual exploitation in the Philippines. This organization provides incredible support to girls who have…

The Gospel Is Love

Christ's Love, Ephesians 2:4-5, Fruits of the Spirit, Galatians 2:20, Gospel, John 15:9-17, John 3:16, Kindness, Love, Lover Our Enemies, Loving Others, Patience, Psalm 136:26, Psalm 86:15, Romans 5:2-5, Romans 5:8, Romans 8:37-39

At the heart of the gospel is love. God so loved the world he sent his Son, Jesus, to die on the cross (John…

An Abundance Of Love

Abundance, Chaos, Christian Walk, Conversion, Expression, Followers, Galatians 2:20, Imagination, John 13:34-35, Love, Psalm 136:26, Romans 5:2-5, Romans 5:8, Searching, Triune

Joseph Loconte’s book, The Searchers: A Quest for Faith in the Valley of Doubt, is an exploration of what happened during the conversion on…

Anchored Joy

1 Peter 4:13, 2 Corinthians 12:10-11, Anchor, Devotion, Feelings, Fickle, Finite, Happiness, Hebrews 16:19, Isaiah 12:3, Job 5:17, Joy, Love, Stability, Truth

In a piece for The Gospel Coalition, Ryan Hoselton compares the artist Pharrell and Augustine’s views on happiness. “The truth is that viewing happiness…