On one occasion, a religious lawyer or a Jewish Bible scholar asked Jesus a question to tempt or test His theology. Follow along as I read the account in Luke 10:25-28. After hearing Jesus’ answer, we read … (v.29). Jesus then told the parable of the Good Samaritan answering the question, “Who is my neighbour?” […]
Your mother may care for you. Your spouse may care for you. Your family or friends may care for you, but as hymn writer Charles F. Weigle’s wrote, “No One Ever Cared for Me Like Jesus.” He wrote, “I would love to tell you what I think of Jesus, Since I found in Him a […]
If you were truly hungry and given a choice between a tiny bowl of vegetables or sitting down to a feast featuring organic prime beef, most of you would probably choose the organic prime beef. However, if you learned that the tiny vegetable dish was served in a loving home and the organic prime beef […]
God has made it so that we naturally love our family siblings. As youngsters, we may not have always showed it, but we did love our brothers and sisters. We were a family. We stuck together. We helped each other. Sadly, in our day, not every family shares that brotherly love that ought to be […]
A young man spent an entire evening telling his sweetheart how much he loved her. He said that he could not live without her; that he would go to the ends of the earth for her; yes, he said he would even die for her. However, on leaving, he said, “I’ll see you tomorrow night […]
The Love of God “Could we with ink the ocean fill, And were the skies of parchment made, Were every stalk on earth a quill, And every man a scribe by trade, To write the love of God above, Would drain the ocean dry. Nor could the scroll contain the whole, Though stretched from sky […]
John Fawcett lived from 1740-1817. He spent 54 years as the pastor of a poor Baptist church in Wainsgate, England. His preaching and writings blessed many, including King George III. He penned the following hymn about Christian love. “Blest be the tie that binds our hearts in Christian love! The fellowship of kindred minds is […]
The world often defines love as a feeling. They think it is something that makes them feel special. When the romantic, heart-fluttering feeling leaves a marriage people say, “I just do not love my spouse anymore.” They treat love like a perfume that wears off. Biblical love is not a feeling. It is a choice. […]
Love and bitterness are like the two ends of a seesaw. When one end is up, the other is down. You cannot possibly be loving and bitter at the same time. If you biblically love your wife, you will not be bitter toward her. If you are bitter toward your wife, you are not biblically […]