If we deny the grief its right in our lives, then we must question the love for which the grief is supposedly rooted. God’s grief is founded in His love for Himself and His love...

As a kid, I was taught that if you opened the Bible in the middle you’d probably land on the book of Psalms. And near the middle is everyone’s favorite, the 23rd, there is this...

Yep, there’s special eyes that only Jesus can give. When people have special eyes, they can see past a person’s face and show other people love.

Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community ofhumans even as I exclude myself from the community of sinners. But no onecan be in the presence of the God of the crucified Messiah...

… no person can be his own saviour … An individual must come before God in penitence, confess his sin and obtain pardon from a merciful God who repudiates sin but shows covenant love to...

God is willing to walk the earth again incarnate in us.

O my Mansoul, I have lived, I have died, I live, and I will die no more for thee. I live that thou mayest not die. Because I live thou shalt live also; I reconciled...

If Children are God’s Gift then adopted are God’s child.

God built lighthouses to see people through storms. Then he built storms to remind people to find lighthouses.

Irony of life – GOD will always make you do things which you never want to.

Those who correct others should watch for the Holy Spirit to go ahead of them and touch a person’s heart. Learn to imitate Him who reproves gently. . . .When you become outraged over a...

God is closer to you than you think.

It’s not about finding ways to avoid God’s judgment and feeling like a failure if you don’t do everything perfectly. It’s about fully experiencing God’s love and letting it perfect you. It’s not about being...

But O the exceeding graceOf highest God, that loves his creatures so,And all his works with mercy doth embrace,That blessed angels, he sends to and fro,To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.

You will remember this when all else fades, this moment, here, together, by this well. There will be certain days, and certain nights, you’ll feel my presence near you, hear my voice. You’ll think you...

God could easily at any moment prove he existed beyond doubt with some amazing show of power which would have everyone kneel to him in awe. That is not what he wants. Real belief can’t...

While the memory of guilt is far from pleasant (like ‘wormwood and gall’), it has the curative intent of restoring us into an awareness of the constancy of God’s love, new every morning. God’s mercy...

The truth is that each of us fall short of loving unconditionally. We don’t love others the way God loves us. Yet Jesus extended perfect love by living and dying for all of our sins....

We obey God’s Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ.

Maybe He’s already given you a miracle. You just can’t see it.

see” your heart and rejoice with you.

Every creature is a co-creator

Turning something over to the Holy Spirit is a leap of faith that lets go of attempting to control outcomes. The core of alcoholism, anorexia, bulimia, smoking and a host of things the world calls...

The more I pursue God, the more I realize that he is inherently different from us. He does not protect his possessions and hoard his toys. He does not look forways to make us jealous...

It’s only when we acknowledge God as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, that we can receive His love for us.

…there began to come to her a first dim realization of God’s humility. Rejected by the proud in His own right by what humble means He chose to succor them; through the spirit of a...

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

Don’t say I’m alone, this makes us depressed. loneliness are the moments when we can know more about ourselves. loneliness are the moments when we are only in God’s company. Just feel it and enjoy...

If God absolutely and pretemporally decrees that particular persons shall be saved and others damned, apart from any cooperation of human freedom, then God cannot in any sense intend that all shall be saved, as...

You know how the Eclipse of the sun shows it? Christ’s strength eclipses your powerlessness in God’s likeness, and there is total darkness on your weakness.

Our lives, as short as they may be, are a test. And one of the biggest tests we can endure is how we respond to those moments when we don’t feel the presence of God...

What makes a man’s 80 year-old Irish uncle skip like a little boy? “Me Father is very fond of me!

I have known friendship love, parental love, romantic love, family love and unrequited love in my life time, but the only love that made a difference was self love. You don’t need confirmation from the...

Together, on his back porch, his cigarette smoke rising like incense to the heavens, we spoke to the God of grace we both are so grateful to know up close and personal. It may be...

One may be “outside” the church, but one can never be “outside” of God’s love.

Breaking News: I am still standing!

The greatest sense of love, which is available for us at all times, is God’s love.

Since God exists outside of time, He also has all of the time He needs to personally act in each of our lives. There is never a rush to the next meeting or the next...

Many years ago a friend of mine, Kevin O’Niel made a very profound comment …The difference between the love of God and the love of man is that man loves people or things because they...

He who could want for nothing desires my being my essence. My fellowship. He wants my freedom for his sake and mine and it’s hard to comprehend this love. He created me for love and...

Don’t be so impatient in finding love; take your time & allow the Lord to write that special love story for you. Otherwise you’ll be busy reading the back of the book.

If you have never known the power of God’s love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it – I mean really asked, expecting an answer.

Life is uncertain.Lord grant us gracious courage to face the uncertainty of life.

It took six days from start to finish for the totality of Creation; but within three days He cut His schedule in half to save you.

The good part about having a mental disorder is having a valid reason for all the stupid things we do because of a damaged prefrontal cortex. However, the best part is seeing someone completely sane...

My nun, which is how I think of her, was the most profound witness for God’s love I’ve ever encountered in this world. She was a magnet for lost souls, a petite fortress of strength...

The best part about God’s love is that you don’t even have to be perfect for Him to love you unconditionally.

You are a human being, not a human body.

The words ‘good’ and ‘love’ have become so trivialized in our culture–not that our definitions were so accurate to begin with–that, in times of distress or disappointment, we struggle to believe that God is either.

God’s love for others does not stop at the border; neither should ours.