November 2015

Oh, my dear Corinthian friends! […] Any coldness still between us is not because of any lack of love on my part but because your love is too small and does not reach out to me and draw me in.  2 Corinthians 6:11-12 (TLB) The Corinthian church had given Paul

Here is a simple, rule-of-thumb guide for behavior: ask yourself what you want people to do for you, then grab the initiative and do it for them. Add up God’s Law and Prophets and this is what you get. Matthew 7:12 (NKJV) Jesus gave us the perfect principle for establishing healthy

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so. Do not say to your neighbor, “Go, and come back, and tomorrow I will give it,” when you have it with you. Proverbs 3:27-28 (NKJV) Speaking by the wisdom of God,

Eagerly pursue and seek to acquire [this] love [make it your aim, your great quest]. 1 Corinthians 14:1 (AMP) What’s your great quest in life? What are you seeking after and working hard to accomplish? Is it fame? Is it wealth? It it respect? Even though many believers spend their entire lives

For the love of Christ controls and urges and impels us, because we are of the opinion and conviction that One died for all, then all died; and He died for all, so that all those who live might live no longer to and for themselves, but to and for Him Who died and was raised again for their sake.