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 …
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 …
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, …
Hallmark©, American Greetings©, Animal Charm Designs©, and Fresh Out of Ink© – all greeting card companies – and all having a very good week. February 14th is Valentine’s Day, and Americans will purchase 145 million Valentine’s cards. If you are not one of those 145 million and need to purchase a card, consider this Interruption …
But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love (1 Corinthians 13:13, NASB1995). The Apostle Paul teaches us to abide in faith, hope, and love. Your spiritual vitality and emotional health can be discerned by checking your faith, hope, and love. The opposite of faith is fear, the opposite of hope …
May the Lord make your love for one another and for all people grow and overflow, just as our love for you overflows (1 Thessalonians 3:12, NLT). Love can grow or wither. Recently, I officiated a wedding where I asked those at the ceremony to use their imagination to picture the couple in 30 years. …
Now faith, hope, and love abide (1 Corinthians 13:13). Faith, hope, and love – a summary of life from following Jesus. I’ve asked myself, “How do I grow in faith, hope, and love?” Then I consider the difficulty. If someone testifies, “I’m growing in faith, hope, and love,” do you believe them? What would be …
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. 2 Timothy 4:3-4 ESV The ugliness of truth is that, left alone to its own devices, it becomes …
Saturday Edition: On Saturday I often give updates or share an article that I have previously written. I write often about love and want those who read Interruptions to understand the significance of “agape”, which is the Greek word most often used for “love” in the New Testament. Words often fail us. We cannot express …