When we drift from a deep, intimate companionship with God, we can become negative, critical, judgmental, and recalcitrant. It happens to all of us at times. The telltale signs are equivocation, vacillation, and pretense. Lloyd John Ogilvie [Paraphrased]
Whatever else might be the reason for our current suffering, we can know this: “The Lord your God is testing you to find out whether you love him with all your heart and with all your soul” Deuteronomy 13:3 NIV
Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure...
An affirming paraphrase of 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, and the template for an Awesome marriage: Love is patient.Love is kind.Love is secure and contented, not envious or jealous.Love is humble and not proud or conceited.Love is courteous and not rude.Love is generous and...
Three things will last forever – faith, hope, and love – and the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13 NLT If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. Love...