God’s Love is an Exercise of His Goodness
God’s Love is an Exercise of His Goodness… God’s love for us reaches its goal as it brings us to know and enjoy Him in a covenant relationship. This is how God relates to His people. He promises to be our God and our Redeemer and we promise to love and serve Him alone. We […]
Relationships Without Love
Relationships without love are anywhere from mediocre to miserable. The personal greatness of love takes on powerful significance when we realize that God is love. God’s love was put on visible display when He loved those unworthy of His love, people like me. (Romans 5:8) The greatest display of love happened when our Creator became […]
Unknowable- Unfathomable
No matter how much we think we know, we will never know the depth of His love. It’s unknowable. Throughout eternity we will never come to the place of saying that we know all that there is to know of His great love for us. The measurements (Eph 3:18-19) that Paul gives emphasize the immensity […]
Secured In Undeserved Love
Memorize these verses… “For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:38-39) […]
Do You Battle Uncertainty?
Do you know and rely on God’s love for you? Assurance of God’s love is essential for your walk with Him. Uncertainty of your standing with God leads to instability in your walk with God. We must come to a place where “we know and rely on the love God has for us.” (1 John […]
Humans Are Social Beings by Divine Creation
Humans are social beings by Divine creation. We are not meant to be alone (and we know it). Our lives depend on others, and we were designed to flourish in community. God’s answer to our social and community needs is the Church. The work of Jesus on earth cannot be thought of apart from the […]
Behind Actions- Emotions- Attitudes
Behind actions, emotions, and attitudes are ways of thinking (perspectives) that fortify the actions, emotions, and attitudes. Why do I do this? (you are struggling with habits and actions). Why do I feel this way? (you are struggling with emotions). When we enter God’s Word, we should see it as a “perspective formation session with […]
You Don’t Decide Who You Are…
You do not decide who you are, but rather you find out who you are. It is not your option to decide what you want to be – it is predetermined and written in the heavens for you to discover for yourself on earth. Paul is an apostle by the will of God or the […]
You Are Created In God’s Likeness
You Are Created In God’s Likeness. That means you are more like God than the rest of creation. God picks up dust, and breeze, and breathes humanity into humanity, and Adam becomes a living being. And God defines the nature of this being with nine words. “Let us make man in our image, in our […]
Good News For Victims of Abuse
God does not see us in light of the abuse. He sees what He created, people made in His image. He is eager to restore us to the purpose for which He created us. Because God designed us, He is the only One who can define us. Nothing can steal that definition. No abuse, sin, […]