Love Is Powerful

All Christian service is powerless without love. No matter how you speak — you are weak without love. No matter your words — they are worthless without love. Eloquence may move men and nations for […]

Faith Working by Love

The church at Galatia was a troubled church. At one time it had been flourishing. Love had lived there. The bond between Paul and these Christians had been so strong that he said they would […]

The Fruit of the Spirit

The Christian’s body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. This Divine Person within is not only a resident, but a resource. It is His purpose to reproduce the life of Jesus Christ in each […]

No Difference

The Pacific Garden Mission News carried the following article: “Remember, the man on Skid Row is not different IN KIND from the rest of us. He is merely worse in degree. On Skid Row we […]

Proving Love

A popular bumper sticker says: Honk! If You Love Jesus.” Perhaps a better one would be: “Tithe! If You Love Jesus.” A wealthy businessman and an attorney were traveling around the world. One morning as […]

Unfeigned Love

“I love him, but…” often precedes a tirade of sanctified slander. Sometimes the gossip is guised as a prayer request or finished with a postscript: “I just thought you ought to know — I’ve said […]

Liberty

Many Christians wrestle constantly with the question of what they can or cannot do in the Christian life. Their understanding of “the world” is fuzzy and they struggle to know the difference between dedicated Christian […]

Fulfilling the Law

Jesus once shocked the Pharisees, saying: “…thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And […]

Love For Others

In preparing Peter for his work in the early church, the Lord asked Peter if he loved Him. Peter had to learn that genuine love for Christ required acts of love and concern for others. […]

Brotherly Love

In the first century after Christ, Tertullian, the Christian theologian wrote: “It is our care for the helpless, our practicing of lovingkindness, that brands us in the eyes of our opponents. ‘Look,’ they say, ‘how […]

The World’s Love

The world loves its heroes, but even this love is temporary. One may be king of the mountain one day and cast down the next. Big names of the past are often the moral and […]

Disciples

Love is a requirement of discipleship. It is the identifying Christian characteristic. The world is able to recognize one who is disciplined to Christ by his daily and practical acts of Christian love. Real Christianity […]