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God Is Love - Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the ...
- Bible Gateway Passage
By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who...
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- Bible Gateway Passage
26 apr 2024 · Answer. In 1 John 4:7–8, the apostle John returns to one of his favorite subjects—love: “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love” (NKJV).
- A “Love” Story
- Assumptions About Love
- Our Trouble with Authority
- The Local Church
I read a love story in high school that popularizes this kind of costume. Generations of students have been shaped by it. The story opens on a sunny summer’s morning with five women gathered on a grassy plot outside a town jail. The date is unspecified, but it’s sometime in the seventeenth century. The place is a small Puritan settlement in New Eng...
If Hawthorne were living today, he might describe himself with the well-known mantra “spiritual, not religious.” His fictionalized Puritan church codified every conceivable moral transgression and then handed these codes to the magistrate to be enforced. The problem was not the moral or spiritual impulse, Hawthorne would say. Spiritual impulses are...
That brings us to the other topic of this book: authority. It’s something that befuddles Westerners today. We don’t like the idea of authority, as I was just saying, but our lives are suffused by it: hospital procedures, building codes, traffic laws, parental responsibilities, marriage covenants, student requirements, office rules, the laws of stat...
Standing against all this, opposing the world’s misconceptions of love and authority, is the divinely irksome while vaguely attractive local church. To the world, the church is both a fly in the ointment and the ointment. It spoils natural desires and inspires supernatural ones. The world presumes to understand love and authority, like it presumes ...
3 feb 2024 · For Christians, God is the very definition of self-sacrificial love and what it truly means. We should have long ago stopped trying to define God and the divine character on our very partial understandings of human love and human feelings. But there is much more to be said.
9 ago 2020 · God Is Love is a famous verse from 1 John 4:8 about God's loving nature. Compare translations and reflect on the meaning of these words.
3 apr 2015 · God is love, the great heart of the universe and of man, from which is drawn forth all feeling, sympathy, emotion, and all that goes to make up the joys of existence. Yet God does not love anybody or anything. God is the love in everybody and everything.
Love is a key attribute of God in Christianity, even if in the New Testament the expression "God is love" explicitly occurs only twice and in two not too distant verses: 1 John 4:8,16. The love of God has been the center of the spirituality of a number of Christian mystics such as Teresa of Avila.
