“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friend.” - John 15:12-13 This blog serves as part 2 of a series of entries that I’m writing on hospitality and Christian service. ...
Takefriendship, for instance. My best friend in high school had a lot of good qualities, but she was slow-moving, especially when we were to go somewhere together. Any attempts to hurry her led to even more slowness. Constant harping on this one issue would only have driven a wedge betw...
Maybe it’s direct physical evidence, like in a murder case where you have DNA, a weapon, a video, and witnesses. That would be a slam-dunk case. Wouldn’t it? If God showed up at your house or office as would a flesh and blood friend and say to you, “Hello, I am God, and...
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have ...
“In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.” John 15:13 (NIV) “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” We hope these Bible verses about relationships inspire you to lea...
Habitual or sanctifying grace is a supernatural quality that dwells in the human soul, by which a person shares in the divine nature, becomes a temple of the Holy Spirit, a friend of God, his adopted child, an heir to the glory of heaven, and able to perform actions meriting eternal ...
outdoors) or a rock, a log, or a circular table. On it stand a single white altar candle, god and goddess figures, censer, salt and water, drinking horn, sword, and the book of rituals known as "The Tree." The presiding priest or priestess may also lay his or herseaxon the altar...
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. -John 15:13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. -1 Corinthians 13:13 We love because he first loved us. -1 John 4:19 ...
My son, Zack, bought an old police cruiser and has been trying to soup it up ever since. But the modifications he wants are costly. His friend, Billy, is studying automotive in college and has an internship at a car dealership. When Zack couldn’t afford the new exhaust system he wante...
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. John 13:34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. Ephesians 4:2 With all humility and gentleness, with patience, ...