"'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." (Matt...
How do we face a challenge? But firstly, what is a challenge? The dictionary defines it originally as an accusation or a reproach. Apparently if you were accused or reproached you answered by drawing battle lines so we have come to regard a challenge as the command to...
"You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before men,...
"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit," (Matt 28:19-20 NIV) When I was a boy our church didn't have a choir so everyone was expected to sing. That didn't bother me since I was an...
"And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another — and all the more as you see the Day approaching." (Heb 10:24-25 NIV) This...
"Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." (Heb 12:2 NIV) When I was a young boy my family would always make a Summer...
"We give thanks to You, O God, we give thanks!" (Ps 75:1 NKJV) As I have moved into my forties now I have begun to see more and more that body age has very little to do with soul age. My body keeps telling me again and again that I am getting older. My soul, however,...
"Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' Or 'What shall we drink?' Or 'What shall we wear?' For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His...
"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." (1 Cor 13:13 NIV) But there remains I saw something that both amused me and saddened me the other day. Three teenage girls were walking up the street together, but they didn’t seem...
"The entire law is summed up in a single command: "Love your neighbor as yourself." (Gal 5:14 NIV) I love the old story of the wise man and the pearl. A traveler with a troubled heart was walking along the beach. He was headed to a small hut where an old hermit was...