Many of you have heard of the “Five Love Languages” – Words of Affirmation, Quality Time, Gifts, Physical Touch, and Acts of Service. Most people have one or two primary ways that make us feel loved. For example, you might…
Big Love of God
There are two kinds of love – “big love” and “small love.” People say, “I love you.” They mean it, usually. But how much do they love you? Is it a casual love – like an acquaintance who appreciates what…
Loving the Unlovable
I heard a story not too long ago from a Christian man who had traveled to a part of the world where there is a lot of sin – the kind of sin that even non-Christians would say was wrong. …
Mount Edith Cavell and Patriotism
Many years ago, my family took a trip up to the Canadian Rockies. On a somewhat rainy morning, we drove up the Icefields Parkway to an area below Mount Edith Cavell. Along the way, we saw a mother grizzly bear…
It’s Time… to Love Enemies
A couple of weeks ago, my dad asked each of us to come up with a song that meant something to us. It could be anything from “I just like this song” to “This song means so much to me…
Loving Those Who… Don’t Love Well
Just because people don’t like us doesn’t mean that we are not called to love them. Here are five practical ways to love people who don’t love you.
Loving the Ones In Front of Us
It’s easy to love our friends or the neighbors we don’t see very often. But God wants us to love the people who are right in front of us – our family, etc.
To Love Well
Everything God did was done in love because He is, at his very nature, love. With His Spirit within us, we can also be motivated by love.
The Tiniest Details
We tend to think of God as an almighty being. That’s not inaccurate. He created the world, He sees everything that happens, and he is alive and active in world affairs even to this day. (That doesn’t mean that evil…
The Fruit of the Spirit in the Wilderness
Last week, we talked about how good trees bear good fruit. One of the interesting things is that God, too, produces fruit. Of course, He is behind the trees bearing their fruit in season here on earth (Jeremiah 5:24). …