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, ...
“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. ...
With everything happening in the world, it can be hard to have hope. But Christ offers us someone to hope in that is greater than the worldRead More Christian Living Waiting for Christmas The weeks leading up to Christmas is a time for waiting, much like the Israelites anxiously were waiti...
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him ...
John 15:13- Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. Jeremiah 31:3- The Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you. ...
This placing of the hand upon the head of the animal before it was to be killed was more than just an identifying act or a way for the worshiper to let the priest know why he had brought the animal there. It was symbolic of at least two aspects of what was needed for “atonement....
We contend that man-made traditions, rather than the truth according to Scripture, has produced a modern day Church with little to no resemblance to the Church as described by Christ and His Apostles.
Where no religious body has provided sanction or authorization, scriptures have had to stand on their own authority. Muslims believe that the Qurʾān does this easily. The Qurʾān, their only sacred canon or standard of faith, authenticates itself, they believe, by its internal self-evide...
Scripture Notes really will make you a better scriptorian no matter what your current skill level is. What does it cost? For nearly 20 years I studied the scriptures with a homemade simplified version of this program. I had the scriptures with a note field to the side of every verse, an...
This inconsistency highlights the human tendency to be self-centered and myopic rather than God-focused and biblically wise. Scripture reminds us that we are all undeserving of God’s goodness, for “There is no one righteous, not even one... for all have sinned and fall short of the ...