But he had an encounter with Love Himself, and everything changed! The new man, Paul, was a walking advertisement for just how deep and wide Love is. When Paul writes, love keeps no record of wrong (NIV), he isn’t preaching from a lofty, disconnected pulpit. It’s his testimony.
Five things I heard this week A Student to Me: Your face could be an…
The ram God provided for Abraham to sacrifice on Mt. Moriah foretold love’s greatest moment. For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16). Generations passed between this shadow of love to come and its fruition—Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection. Meanwhile, since God is love (1 John 4:8, 16), he demonstrated through the ages its—his—expansive nature.
Recently during prayer for a worship night, I believe the Lord gave a neat picture for that evening. And though it was for that particular place, I believe it will encourage you too.
Here are five things I heard this week. What did you hear that keeps resounding?
In my mess, the brokenness You come along and take what’s left Form your deep,…
In keeping with the premise of this study, I decided to look at how love was first revealed in scripture. I was reminded of something truly wonderful. The first mention of love in the Bible occurs between God, Abraham, and Isaac. In this terrible yet beautiful, if I may, account of worship and faith, we see a foreshadowing of love’s pinnacle moment in history.
You can boast about anything if it’s all you have — from East of Eden…
Let’s think about holiness as if it were a treasure map. God draws a boundary line, a separation, around all his character, the depths of his riches. The line separates all of who he is from everything that he is not. The border of this land is accessible to everyone. It attracts many visitors. However, to cross over the border you must be washed clean by the blood of Jesus Christ, our Redeemer. Although his blood, his very life, is given to us without price, it does requires us to give up our old self and become new creations in him. There is no other way.
The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit exist in a perfect, unified, mutual relationship of creative and sacrificial love. They do nothing apart from each other. The Father declared himself as holy (Exodus 3:14), which means Jesus and the Spirit are without a doubt also holy. In an effort to better understand the completeness of God’s holy nature, I want to look individually at the Son and Spirit.
A kazillion words are spoken around us every week. We only remember a handful of them. What did you hear this week?
Brave Sparrow 