Love Diagnosed, Not Romanticized When Scripture describes love, it does so with remarkable clarity and honesty. The apostle Paul doesn’t offer just a poem for weddings, but a diagnostic tool for everyday relationships. “Love is patient and kind… it bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” (1 Corinthians 13:4–7, ESV)…
Introduction: Why the Question Matters Few words are used more often and understood less than love. Our culture defines love as a feeling, an attraction, or a personal preference. Songs celebrate it, movies sentimentalize it, and social media reduces it to affirmation. Yet Scripture offers something far sturdier and far more demanding. The Bible defines…
’Twas with an everlasting love That God his own elect embraced; Before he made the worlds above, Or earth on her huge columns placed. Long ere the sun’s refulgent ray Primeval shades of darkness drove, They on his sacred bosom lay, Loved with an everlasting love. Then in the glass of his decrees, Christ and his bride appeared as one; Her sin,…
Awake, my soul, in joyful lays, And sing thy great Redeemer’s praise; He justly claims a song from me; His loving-kindness, O how free! He saw me ruined in the fall, Yet loved me notwithstanding all; He saved me from my lost estate; His loving-kindness, O how great! [Though numerous hosts of mighty foes, Though earth and hell my way oppose, He…
Loving and Hating at the Same Time: A Biblical Tension One of the more difficult tensions in the Christian life is how the Bible teaches us to both love our enemies and at the same time hate evil. Many people scratch their heads when they hear David say, “Do I not hate those who hate…
The Timeless Love Story Does the love of God still feel like breaking news in your life? As Christians, we sometimes find the “old, old story” growing stale, especially if we’ve walked with Christ for many years. But the writers of Scripture never tire of recounting this theme. They never take it for granted. Psalm…