Category Archives: love
the debts he calls us to pay
Romans 13. Believers have been set free from the debt to sin and are now free to live in the righteousness given to us through the grace and mercy of God. Our change in status before God includes a new … Continue reading
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Tagged Romans 13
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worshippers
Romans 12. Since we are products of God’s mercy and grace, we should demonstrate that fact by sacrificial lives as worshippers. Worshippers seek the perfect will of God with ever-renewing minds (2). Worshippers use their spiritual gifts to glorify God … Continue reading
family love
Genesis 43. This moving story of Joseph’s second encounter with his brothers reveals what has been going on in Joseph’s heart since they sold him into slavery. You would expect Joseph to have harbored bitterness and hatred in his heart. … Continue reading
sharing his touch
Luke 18:31-19:27. On his way to be Jerusalem where his will be beaten and killed — Jesus stops to heal a blind man, and to bring reconciliation to Zacchaeus. He is still involved in his mission to seek and to … Continue reading
Posted in kingdom of God, love, ministry, second coming, witness
Tagged Luke 18, Luke 19
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the lawyer and Martha
Luke 10:25-42. The balance needed to be a follower of Jesus is seen in the two people that he encounters in this text. First, there is the lawyer who knows all the right answers, yet in his heart he refuses … Continue reading
being his answer
Isaiah 58. God said that his people sought him daily and delighted to know his ways, but it — like their fasts — was pretentious. The fast was pure animistic ritual. They thought that if they only got the ceremony … Continue reading
the old fashioned way
Job 31. Job’s final appeal to his comforter-accusers reveal a high standard of integrity before God. Long before the law given at Sinai, the Creator imprinted on the human heart a law that teaches us faithfulness in marriage (1), business … Continue reading
true or false?
1 John 3:4-24. By the time John wrote his letters, he had to draw a distinction between true believers and false. False prophets had begun deceiving the church, and false Christians were present in the churches. John asserted that true … Continue reading
faithfulness or fruitfulness?
John 15:1-17. As long as the branches remain connected to the vine, fruit should be the automatic result. If anything keeps a branch from bearing fruit, the Father will bring out the pruning shears and remove it. The fruit is … Continue reading
love triangle
John 14:21-24. Keeping Christ’s commandments are the evidence of a divine three-way relationship between the believer, Christ, and the Father. Each side in the triangle is love. Obedient believers love Christ. Christ loves them, and the Father loves them. Jesus … Continue reading
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