How are you at loving others? I wish I was better at it. A common reason people love others is to be liked. It sounds shallow, I know, but at the root of far too many acts of kindness is a desire to be accepted or embraced by others. When we love our neighbours, it’s almost always for us, in some way.
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If we love Him, we obey Him. In my opinion, this is the hardest teaching that Jesus ever gave. Lately, this instruction on obedience has been coming up a lot, and challenging me to my core.
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A single song can convict. In my late teens, I heard a song that resonated deep within me. This song would become my life’s most influential praise and worship song. This song continues to draw me near to God whenever I hear it, and even more so, whenever I sing it.
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As someone who has received plenty of rebuke in life, well-deserved I might add; I have come to realize the difference between certain types of rebuke, all stemming from motive. The power and traction of a rebuke are primarily centred on the motive of the person issuing it. The process in which a rebuke takes place, and the words used, will all flow out of that motive.
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Pursuing faith, hope, and love shouldn’t stem from good intentions or a desire to be kind to people because it’s the right thing to do. It should be an outpouring of the Gospel transformation in our hearts, and the renewed mind that can only come from genuinely experiencing a spiritual rebirth. That kind of faith, hope, and love does not depend on life circumstances or temporal emotional responses; it is rooted in the person and power of Jesus Christ.
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Bible, Books, Discipleship, NT
We can persevere through those unhealthy and unhelpful thoughts and feelings, moving into a place of deeper belonging. We can make a choice to rest in God’s love, poured out through Jesus, who becomes our source of value and identity. And in Him, we receive a maturity that we might not otherwise have known.
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Have you ever felt like God is ignoring you? When life is falling apart, it feels like God is refusing to step in. Even when you’re crying out for help, it feels like God isn’t listening. Yet in truth, He is intently listening to every word.
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In the last chapter of John, we find a very peculiar account, centred around Peter, his relationship with Jesus and his future ministry of starting the church. It begins with, “I’m going out to fish,” Simon Peter told them, and they said, “We’ll go with you.” (John 21:3)
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Bible, Discipleship, Family, Gospels, NT
A wife’s submission to her husband is a touchy subject these days. Even in the Church! Living in this moment, in a post-Christian Western culture, it’s hard to hear words like those found in 1 Peter 3. How do we teach this Biblical principle in a post-Christian culture?
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