I use the word nuance in today’s Interruption, writing about differing aspects of the love described in the New Testament. It’s estimated that over 100 million love songs have been recorded, and that around 60 percent of pop songs written today contain themes of love. In the New Testament, depending on the translation, “love” is […]
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No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him (1 John 3:6, ESV). Examine, review, and then examine this diagram again, as it illustrates the differences between all the other world’s religions and Christianity. Religion teaches us to work hard for perfection and to
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For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23, ESV). Created by our Father for relationship, we are as happy as those relationships. Because of sin (missing the mark of loving relationships), we find ourselves separated from God, others, and self. This separation can be filled with the G.U.L.F. Principles of Restoration.
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Mercy withholds what we deserve, and grace gives us what we don’t deserve. Grace and mercy reveal the fullness of God’s love. In Romans 12, the Apostle Paul pens one of the great practical living chapters in the Bible. This chapter has three sections. The first starts with mercy when Paul says, “By the mercies
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If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal (1 Corinthians 13:1, NLT). When I first started reading verse one, comparing love to a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal, I thought, “How odd.” Of all Shakespeare’s sonnets,
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By this is love perfected with us (1 John 4:17, ESV). Everyone wants to know and experience love. But we often fail with love. The Country Music industry thrives on this failure, making millions of dollars producing songs with lyrics like Morgan Wallen’s Chasin You… Chasing that freedom, chasing that feeling that got gone too soon.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law (Galatians 5:22-23, ESV). True love comes from the Spirit. When we don’t walk in the Spirit, we don’t experience true love. Since the Spirit of God is rarely mentioned or followed in culture today, often, songs and
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God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him (1 John 4:16, NASB1995). Love is mostly lost in our culture because we have lost God. Love hasn’t been lost because our true love has betrayed us or because our friends don’t like us anymore. Love hasn’t been
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For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments, and His commandments are not burdensome (1 John 5:3, NASB1995). How does love grow? We can’t talk our love into growing. If we say in the morning, “Today, I’m going to grow at love,” we will fail, as we can’t “will” ourselves to feel better. And we
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love (1 Corinthians 13:13, ESV). Let’s define attitude as the mindset from which we evaluate the events and people around us. We can have a positive or negative attitude. The Bible teaches three qualities that improve our attitude – faith,
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