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Let your light shine before others.
| Leave a CommentIn the dark, light will—no, is meant to—twinkle, glow, shine. Its purpose is to guide, to make people see through […]
Read more »In my Father’s house has many rooms… I am going there to prepare a place for you.
| Leave a CommentWhat awaits us after this life? Be it a literal or a figurative house, we know it to be a […]
Read more »I have come that you might have life, and have it to the full
| Leave a CommentJust like any good shepherd who loves the sheep he owns, Jesus Christ demonstrated His love for us, His sheep, […]
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Know God, know Courage
| Leave a CommentSo do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will […]
Read more »As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.
| Leave a CommentJesus’ ministry did not end in His resurrection, not even in His ascension. It continued—no, continues up to this day. […]
Read more »Believe that you have received it, and it will be yours
| Leave a CommentShocked. Such was Peter’s reaction when he saw that the fig tree Jesus cursed has actually withered—as if it were […]
Read more »Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind
| Leave a CommentL-O-V-E. These four letters echo around us: in the heart decors that adorn almost every shop, in the songs being […]
Read more »Take heart! I have overcome the world
| Leave a CommentAs He was about to return to the Father’s side and leave the disciples behind, Jesus left them with a […]
Read more »Declaring His SELF-EMPTYING PASSION, exalting Jesus
| Leave a CommentIn the beginning, God was there. Before light filled the darkness; before the sun, moon, and stars filled the skies; […]
Read more »Declaring His RESURRECTING POWER, exalting Jesus
| Leave a CommentThat which is powerful to render a person lifeless, that even the mention of it silences a noisy crowd and […]
Read more »Declaring His GLORIOUS SPLENDOR, exalting Jesus
| Leave a CommentThe contrast of the landscape against the woman, the details of the transparent veil on her head, the soft contouring […]
Read more »Declaring His RESTORATIVE HEALING, exalting Jesus
| Leave a CommentWith his body beaten and bloodied and lacerated, with his face unrecognizable from the bruises and cuts and wounds, and […]
Read more »DECLARING HIS ABOUNDING PROVISIONS, EXALTING JESUS
| Leave a CommentWith the never-ending list of needs and the ever-growing price of goods, plus the barely increasing salaries and the likely […]
Read more »Declaring His DEVOTED TENDERNESS, exalting Jesus
| Leave a CommentAt 92 years old, Shi Shuzhen should be relaxing and enjoying life but, instead of being at the receiving end […]
Read more »Declaring His SUPREME AUTHORITY, exalting Jesus
| Leave a CommentAmong the hall of famers for the world’s strongest, there stands a record of the “most cars pulled by one […]
Read more »Declaring His SELFLESS SERVICE, exalting Jesus
| Leave a Comment“Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask… Let one of us sit at your right and […]
Read more »Declaring His AUTHENTIC LOVE, exalting Jesus
| Leave a CommentLove. This four-letter word has baffled the wisest philosophers, dumbfounded the most prolific writers, and maddened the noblest gentlemen—so much […]
Read more »Declaring His VICTORY, exalting Jesus
| Leave a CommentWe always want to start strong. That is why new years mean bucket lists, resolutions, and ‘warding off bad luck.’ […]
Read more »LIGHT OF THE WORLD
/ | Leave a Comment(HIS GREAT LIGHT IN ME) “When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, ‘I am the light of the […]
Read more »LOVER OF MY SOUL
/ | Leave a Comment(HE RAN TO ME) “So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long […]
Read more »TOPICAL TEACHING: LOVE MOVES
| Leave a CommentThe word LOVE could probably be the most popular word in the whole world — and the most widely defined. In fact, people of all ages have varied meanings to it – from being “love is like a many-splendored thing,” to “love makes the world go round,” to “love is blind.” The list could go on and on, and on.
We Christians, however, regard LOVE in a much deeper sense. For we are coming from the essence of LOVE Himself – God (1 John 4:8). He is the embodiment of all that LOVE is. He is the epitome of all that love DOES.
For more than a noun seeking for hundreds, or maybe even thousands, of definitions, love is a VERB. It acts.
Love … MOVES.
LOVE MOVES
As demonstrated by God Himself:
1.Love accepts.
•34 Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism, 35 but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right. (Acts 10:34-35)
•18 Is he not the One 19 who shows no partiality to princes and does not favor the rich over the poor, for they are all the work of his hands? (Job 34:18-19)
2.Love forgives.
•God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. (2 Corinthians 5:21)
•44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. (Matthew 5:44-45)
3.Love gives.
•This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. (1 John 4:10)
•If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! (Matthew 7:11)
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