“‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” Luke 10:27 (NIV)
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To love God with your whole mind requires you to think like God.
Impossible? Of course, unless you’re connected to God [...]
“‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” Luke 10:27 (NIV)
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God wants your heart to beat in such perfect rhythm with his own that your passions merge with his [...]
“If you love me, you will obey what I command.”
John 14:15 (NIV)
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Jesus said you show your love for him when you do what he tells you to do.
This doesn’t mean your love for him is an obligation. That’s the quickest way to destroy love; besides, love is not demanding (1 [...]
Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem: “I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me and followed me through the desert, through a land not sown.”
Jeremiah 2:2 (NIV)
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The word devotion in Jeremiah 2:2 is a translation of the Hebrew word kesed, which is [...]
The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer . . .
2 Samuel 22:2 (NIV)
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In moments of despair, confusion, or darkness, it’s only natural to wonder if God is paying attention. In honesty, sometimes you ask him, “Hey, God is there any kind of plan here?” Or, “God, do [...]
The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Psalm 46:11 (NIV)
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Many of us are familiar with this psalm because of Martin Luther’s majestic hymn, “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God.”
God, our mighty fortress, “Yahweh Sabaoth is with us, our citadel, the God of Jacob” [...]
Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Galatians 5:25 (NIV)
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All day I’d been involved in a debate. There was something I wanted to do which I knew other Christians were involved with, but I felt a check from the Holy Spirit telling [...]
It is God himself who has made us what we are and given us new lives from Christ Jesus; and long ages ago he planned that we should spend these lives in helping others. Ephesians 2:10 (LB)
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“You may be the only picture of Jesus someone will ever see.” The [...]
Join with others in following my example, brothers, and take note of those who live according to the pattern we gave you. Philippians 3:17 (NIV)
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Sometimes when people ask me what I do for a living, I tell them I’m a professional observer. That’s what writers do; they observe.
As a journalist, [...]
By Jon Walker
“But Jesus immediately said to them: “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.” (Matthew 14:27, NIV)
Across the breadth of the Bible, God consistently sends the message, “Do not be afraid, for I am with you.”
The Bible reveals that God knows we tend toward fear, particularly as we [...]
