I GREW up believing that God is Love, as the Bible teaches, but it was some time before I gave serious thought to what that meant. God's love is simply a given. I'd experienced the healing power of God's love. At such times, His love seemed so strong and powerful to me that ...
“I find J.D. Atkinson’s bookBelievable, to be, above all, interesting and thoughtful. It is easy to read, yet substantial. As an introductory work centered upon the cause of Christ, it affords the careful reader considerable insight into the things of God.” ...
Healing is seen just as a mysterious, seemingly random act of love contained in “God’s sovereignty.” While it is indeed an act of love on God’s behalf, we are left with an image of a God who is capricious and unfair. People may think, “He healed Jane, but not me!” or “...
Why would God create an imperfect world? In a word, for the sake of love; for the sake of people like me; the sake of love manifests as life transformation,, empathy, compassion, humility, agapē; love manifests in creating a better world and even building up the very kingdom of love...
Get a New Heart. We are not pure people by nature. ... Love What God Loves. Indeed, this is the heart of the matter: having a heart that fears and loves God and wants to do the things that bring Him glory. ... Control Yourself. Self-control helps your progress toward purity. ....
Another caregiver found hope in this belief: “I know that He works in all things to the glory and to the good of those that love him.” This mix of responses suggest that some caregivers may have ambivalent feelings about their relationship with God, based on their caregiving experience, ...
The presence and work of the holy angels are simply a part of God's love and care for us. Are we willing, with all our hearts, to love and serve Him? We might well pray in the words of Francis of Assisi: “Lord, grant that I may seek rather... ...
“Love … rejoices with the truth” (1 Corinthians 13:6). For me, that offers at least a plausible explanation for the impossible love God relentlessly showers on us. And it’s why I think Jesus loves me, and you, and all those other countless, nameless people out there: Because ...
promised youspiritualhappiness for doing this since it is a corporal work of mercy when done out of love for God. While you can’t translate Psalm 41:1–4 into a promise of material happiness to you personally, you can know thatin generalGod does increase the material happiness of those ...
and through this we become more devoted to God, or in other words more deeply in love with our Creator. Everyone that God has created is unique in their own ways, so all people see god in different ways. Me myself see god in the sports I play, the people I meet, nature, my famil...