Have you ever seen the Application for Permission to Date My Daughter? It’s a girl’s worst nightmare that includes questions such as: Do you have an earring, nose ring, or belly button ring? When would be the best time to interview your father, mother, and
Have you ever heard these words and thought, “Yeah, tell me about it.” Jesus said they will know we are Christians by the love we show one another. If the only way others can tell we love them is if we tell them, something is
Jesus was busily turning the world of His day upside down. He hung with a “bad” crowd, did things that seemed to go against the Scriptures and often acted as though He was God. None of this endeared Him to the religious leaders of the
Walking down the street, I see them: three young upper-middle-class people loudly talking on their way to a fancy dinner up the block. I am furious with them almost instantly: for their fine tailored clothes, for their trés chic dining plans, for the way they
Love has been a hard lesson for me, especially the love of God. I can understand the wrath, the anger, and the punishments of God, but somehow, His love can elude me. When I understand His love, it is intoxicating, heady. When I do not,
In the last few months we have read in these Web pages about faith and hope. Now at ‘long last’ we come to love. Not a bad qualification, that – ‘long lasting’ love. In fact if we are to succeed in our endeavors to become
The back cover of my Living New Testament reads: Love is very patient and kind, never jealous or envious, never boastful or proud, Never haughty or selfish or rude. Love does not demand its own way. It is not irritable or touchy. It does not
… put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation. For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Thessalonians 5:8-9) A critic of Whosoever wrote to me recently
I remember a sermon my pastor delivered one Sunday when I was in high school. The subject was God and love. For the first time, I heard that the Bible, in its original languages, uses several words to describe love. Our pastor gave us examples
Where there is love, Where mercy abounds, Where justice prevails, There surely is God, found in our midst, Where there is Love. (Bob Hurd) Those beautiful lines are the chorus to a hymn that I sang for the opening of the Valentine’s Day service of