The FOREVER NOTEBOOK

“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”- Romans 8:38-39 Are you convinced [...]

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.”- Romans 8:35,37 The evening news presents us with many ugly pictures of the painful realities of this [...]

This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.”- 1 John 3:11 What is it that keeps you from loving others? What is it really? If you are a Christian you should love everybody else in the faith. Right? “Yes, but….bless her heart, I don’t like the way she looks.” [...]

“This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.”- 1 John 4:10 Love changes things. Love touches, alters, and permeates all that it touches. Love restores and builds. Love is a game changer. My daddy died when I was eleven. [...]

The Behavior of Love, Part 4 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”- John 13:34-35 Today is the day we set aside to emphasize “love.” The [...]

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”- John 3:16 This is the third installment in a series of meditations on The Behavior of Love. (Part 1, Part 2) 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 has provided us with the [...]

“Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”- 1 Corinthians 13: 6-7 Love is all around. I saw it in the dollar store. The checkout line was filled with people purchasing Mylar balloons and tiny heart shaped trinkets. I saw love in the [...]

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.”- 1 Corinthians 13:4-5 Paul’s dissertation on love, from my perspective, is the greatest instruction on love ever written. [...]

“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I [...]

“We ought always to thank God for you, brothers, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love every one of you has for each other is increasing.”- 2 Thessalonians 1:3 Do you ever wonder if your time given to ministry is worth it? That loud and rambunctious group of [...]