LOVE FOR GOD
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This week, we have set aside time to think about some of the reasons why we ought to love the Lord. Over the last four days, I’ve suggested that we ought to love God because He created us in love, because of His profound beauty, because of His constant presence with us, and because of His perfect
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Remember, throughout this year we will see many examples of how we are to love the Lord. But this week, we’re setting aside time to think about some of the reasons why we owe the Lord such a debt of love. Over the last three days, I’ve suggested that we ought to love God because He created us in
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Remember, throughout this year we will see many examples of how we are to love the Lord. But this week, we’re setting aside time to think about some of the reasons why we owe the Lord our God such a debt of love. So far I’ve suggested that we ought to love God because He
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Remember, throughout this year we will see many examples of how we are to love the Lord. But this week, we’re setting aside time to think about some of the reasons why we owe the Lord such a debt of love. Yesterday I suggested that we ought to love God because He created us in
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Throughout this year of studying the many commands and instructions of Jesus our Lord, His words in Mark 12:30 will need to echo through our hearts and minds regularly. Here He named the first and most important commandment as this: ‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and
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Daily Readings: Jude 1 and Psalm 51 As the brother of James, Jude was also the brother of Jesus. Here, however, he writes that he is James’ brother and a bond-servant of Jesus. He wants his readers to know that flesh and blood relationship to the incarnate Jesus is not what set him (Jude) apart
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Daily Readings: 2 John, 3 John and Psalm 51 Writing during a time of severe persecution, the apostle John did not name himself or the congregation to which he wrote. Instead he cryptically referred to himself as “the elder”, to the local church as “the lady”, and to the members as “her children”. When he
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Daily Readings: 1 John 3-4 and Psalm 49 1 John 3-4 is intense and jam-packed with memorable statements about the Lord, His love for us, and the eternal life He longs to pour into us. What follows is my attempt to summarise its main argument. The real, true, deep, rich, full and abundant life for
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Daily Readings: 1 John 1-2 and Psalm 48 The letters of 1-3 John were written by the apostle John, the son of Zebedee and brother of James, around about 90AD. At the time he lived in Ephesus and probably wrote it as a letter to be circulated among the churches of that region. Having known
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Daily Readings: Luke 21 and Psalm 37 Jesus looked around and saw rich people dropping their gifts in the Temple treasury, 2 and he also saw a very poor widow dropping in two little copper coins. 3 He said, “I tell you that this poor widow put in more than all the others. 4 For the others offered their gifts from
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