"And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, 10 so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, 11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through...
"This is how we know what real love is: Jesus gave his life for us. So we should give our lives for our brothers and sisters. Suppose someone has enough to live and sees a brother or sister in need, but does not help. Then God's love is not living in that...
"I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them." (John 17:13 NIV) I misplaced my joy this morning. I woke up to find it missing like a set of lost keys. I started...
"And this is love: that we walk in obedience to His commands. As you have heard from the beginning, His command is that you walk in love." (2 John 1:6 NIV) God is love and He commands His children to walk in love. Jesus said for us to: "Love the Lord our God with all...
"The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: "I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness." (Jeremiah 31:3, NIV) [1] "Since you are precious and honored in my sight, and because I love you, I will give men in exchange for...
In the 1953 movie, The Roman Holiday, Princess Anne embarks on a highly publicized tour of European capitals. When she and her royal entourage arrive in Rome, she begins to rebel against her restricted, regimented schedule. One night Anne decides to get 'out and...
"I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love" (Revelation 2:4)One of the saddest things that can happen to anyone is to lose our love. When love is lost in a family, when the passion of love dies, the family begins to disintegrate. When love...
"I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness." (Jer 31:3) I feel I must share my story. It is so amazing how every day of our lives the Lord's teaches us new lessons and also allows us to be a light house for Jesus. One...
In the beginning of the book of Leviticus there is a list of ways to do the different sacrifices. At the end of all of these is a phrase similar to the following: "But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a...
An analemma is the result of a year-long series of photographs of the sun, taken one week apart at exactly the same minute every week. A certain day and a specific time must be set aside each week for one whole year to take each shot and the process cannot be...