The end and a beginning

Thank you so much for following me in 2021. We have discovered together what love and unity have experienced throughout the word of God. I believe we ended with a good formula – Truth + Love = Unity. Now as the year ends I am looking at going through the Bible with the lens of

Teach me as I am thankful for Your love

Consistent with the message of your culture, your resolve shifts from loving others to healing your wounds, to feeling complete as a loved and significant person. The corruption lying dormant within you since conception, the spirit of entitlement, now roars into death-dealing life. – Crabb I count on the fact that God knows me and

God loves me and the world

The pain of those unmet longings becomes within you a void, an empty space, a lonely feeling of incompleteness. The desire for relief from that pain seems more compelling than your desire to love. And the disappointments you’ve suffered in your relationships have created wounds that beg so strongly for relief that nothing seems more

The bridegroom’s love

As you live the Christian life, free from condemnation for past, present, and future sins and free at any moment and in any circumstance to love, you become aware of deep longings in your heart that remain unsatisfied despite your best efforts at faith and obedience. – Crabb I am still clothed in the body

Love and gratitude keeps lukewarmness away

Your preoccupation with satisfaction when it feels most necessary is the corruption beneath your compulsions. Your expectation of feeling everything you want to feel in this fallen world renders you vulnerable to false teachers who, in the name of My Son, offer you a strategy that promises to let you feel as complete now as

Evinced by the strength of God’s love

You are on the verge of discovering as if for the first time a compelling and holy desire in your depths that will expose every other desire as less, every other satisfaction as unworthy to be compared with the satisfying joy of loving others with divine power. But that discovery will only be made as

Be a lover of truth, love people

I’m wondering if Luther was so drawn to this because he knew how unfree most Christians are to love well. I remember he once wrote that living the Christian life is like a drunk riding a horse. We keep falling off one side or the other, either into legalism, which chokes the freedom to love,

Jesus loves His Church

It’s as if I’m innocently floating along in the freshwater stream of a good Christian life, doing nothing visibly or consciously wrong; and then without warning I find myself hurtling down a fast-moving river of delicious temptation, heading straight for the falls of misery. I feel no power to reverse direction, no will strong enough

Love God for God does the same

What I have to say to you does not begin in comfort. In the long run, it provides unimaginable comfort. But the inclination to twist My story into a tale of relief and recovery rather than redemption and restoration is strong in everyone. Know this: the corruption within you, evidenced in your ongoing failure to

God’s love flows from me

“Living to love is difficult. In this life, I promise you no comfort but My Presence (sometimes unfelt), My power to love (often unclaimed), and My promised hope (typically undervalued) of a never-ending existence of experiencing My perfect love in a perfect world where everyone loves perfectly. It was that kind of comfort and hope