Vivian Bricker
Even though our human ability to love is unreliable, God's love for us never varies. He loves us despite all our sins and flaws because He is God. ...
If God loves us, we assume it must mean that we are not all that bad. Not only is this view false in every way, it destroys a deep appreciation for the amazing beauty of God’s love — that He loved the...
Kristi Walker
Song of Solomon may seem to have nothing to do with God, but romantic love has everything to do with God! It is completely accurate to say that God is the inventor and author of romantic love which na...
Kirstyn Mayden
God’s love is constant, consistent, and steadfast. Despite our continual flaws, sin, and tendency to become distant from God, God’s love draws us closer back to Him. In a world where giving and receiv...
Melissa Henderson
Reading Scripture can show us how love in action was shown in the Bible. One of the most profound and special ways love was shown is when God gave His only Son so that we would not perish but have eve...
Part of godliness is loving—as He loved—sacrificially, selflessly. Loving others not just with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth. ...
Lisa Loraine Baker
If we love someone with a godly love, then by definition of the word, we decide to compassionately and responsibly pursue the well-being of another. God’s Word tells us in Philippians 2:3 to, “Do...
John Piper
Everything else in the Old Testament in some sense depends on these two commandments: the commandment to love God and the commandment to love our neighbor. This is an amazing statement....
Sheila Alewine
“Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the Law. For this, ‘You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You sh...
Heather Adams
We are all born with a need to be loved, a longing to find someone who accepts us completely and who is worthy of our trust. Family, friendships and romantic relationships are important but can fill o...
John Piper
"Love your neighbor as yourself" is a very radical command. What I mean by "radical" is this: it cuts to the root of our sinfulness and exposes it and, by God's grace, severs it....
Heather Adams
There are many different kinds of love. But the one the Apostle Paul seems to be most focused on, especially in this chapter of 1 Corinthians, is agape love. But this selfless affection is something t...
Mike Leake
This verse, I believe, is one which can be easily misunderstood. We can assume that Jesus is saying something like, “prove your love for me by obeying what I tell you to do.” We can develop a works-ba...
Clarence L. Haynes Jr.
God loves you. That sounds good and simple enough, yet for many this is one of the hardest truths about God to grasp. Not because this is not true, but because we have not really come to grips with wh...
“No one has ever seen God.” It’s an expression that exemplifies loneliness. Why the stark contrast with the surrounding text, which focuses on God’s presence and love?...
Catherine Segars
Hate crimes are quick to dominate the headlines. Our culture is afflicted with “isms” rooted in hate. The nation is divided by parties and factions. Marriages are torn apart by resent...
Heather Adams
The phrase The Four Loves came from the title of a 1960 book penned by C.S. Lewis. Based on a set of radio talks he’d done two years earlier, the book presents and then explores the notion that humans...
Allie Boman
“And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.” – 1 Corinthians 13:13The beauty and weight of these words settles like a warm blanket over the complexity and co...
It is sometimes difficult for a modern person, who associates love with uncontrollable feelings, to understand how the Bible can command love of God, neighbors, even enemies. But in the Bible the many...