Discipleship… Knowing Comes Before Loving 28 Jun 201528 Jun 2015 I love Mandi (for those of you who are not in the know, Mandi is my wife). Every time I say that out loud I smile. =) I don't need…
Love Buttercup 16 Apr 201516 Apr 2015 In the opening scenes of the iconic movie, The Princess Bride, Princess Buttercup loved to order her farm-boy Wesley around. It didn't matter if the request was big or small…
Discipleship… You Can’t Really Disciple People without Loving Them 12 Feb 201512 Feb 2015 Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the…
Love Loving like Jesus means Becoming God-Centered and Other Centered 16 Jan 201516 Jan 2015 Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then…
Love Loving like Jesus Means We Need Grace 15 Jan 201515 Jan 2015 Yesterday I said the more like Christ we become, the better we will be at relationships and the better we will get at dealing with problems and challenges in our…
Love To Love like Jesus, You Need to Love Jesus 14 Jan 201514 Jan 2015 Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then…
Love… Lessons from 24 28 Dec 201429 Dec 2014 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her (Ephesians 5:25, NIV). No, I'm not talking about Jack Bauer. I'm talking about my…
Grace… Free to Live by Love 16 Dec 2014 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. Mark my words! I,…
Grace… Spiritual Love Is Proved Genuine By Our Actions 24 Nov 201424 Nov 2014 Yesterday I started wrapping up a series of posts titled "What Does Love Look Like?" If you missed it or are new to my blog it starts here. John says…
Grace… How It All Comes Together 23 Nov 201423 Nov 2014 We have been spending the last few weeks asking the question "What does love look like?" The primary reason I have spent so much time on this question is because…