Obeying God: A Love Thing
The past couple of blogs have focused on God’s love with the themes of: 1) His great love with which He loves us, for it is truly amazing; 2) knowing with unwavering certainty His love for us. ...
Good News and Good News
Nearly everyone is familiar with the adage, “I’ve got some good news and some bad news,” and that is certainly applicable in Deuteronomy 7:9, 10: “Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who...
Love As a Treasured Possession
Such responsibility and designation of the Lord’s treasured possession written about in my last post could have brought Israel into an unhealthy and unholy sense of pride. So, the Lord let them know unequivocally both the why’s and...
Afraid of the Dark…Or Maybe the Light
The Traveler’s Gift by Andy Andrews, contains some very valuable nuggets that I have used in sermons for some years now. I particularly like this quote: “As children, we are afraid of the dark. Now as adults, we...
Labor of Love – Its Tasks and Assurance
In my last post I shared the difference between works of faith and labor of love. Today, let’s look further at that labor as was written to the Hebrews: “For God is not unrighteous to forget your...
Work of Faith, Labor of Love—We’re Called to Both
I find it interesting that Paul used two different words—work and labor, when they seem so similar—as he defined the Thessalonian believers: “constantly bearing in mind your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope...