“Give, and there will be gifts for you” (Luke 6:38). Several years ago, one of America’s greatest musicians, Leonard Bernstein, died. In 1988, as he was turning seventy, a New York Times Editor asked him…
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“…follow Christ by loving as He has loved you” (Ephesians 5:2). Someone has said that love is a basket with five loaves and two fishes: it’s never enough until you start to give it away.…
“The amount you measure out is the amount you will be given back” (Luke 6:38). Somewhere, on the side of a mountain, there is a beautiful place called the “Land of Warm Fuzzies”... The “Land…
“To love Him with all your heart…and to love your neighbor as yourself” (Mark 12:33). These days, who still knows what Love is? Love, with a capital L? These days, who still knows that Love…
“. . . if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us.” (I John 4:12). In one of his “best-seller” books, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer has written a…
“Now you together are Christ’s Body; but each of you is a different part of it” (I Corinthians 12:27). Peter A. Fraille, a Jesuit priest and founder of the “Divine and Human Institute,” tells of…
Heart Song: Once upon a time a woman and a man who yearned to be on the side of truth became husband and wife. With their love, they brought into the world a delightful little…
“In short, there are three things that last: faith, hope and love; and the greatest of these is love” (I Corinthians 13:13). God has shown His love-in-action in Christ. We must continue the pattern as…
“...there are three things that last: faith, hope and love; and the greatest of these is love” (I Corinthians 13:13). In the late sixties, James Baldwin wrote a play about a hand-clapping, Gospel-singing storefront Church…
Moms and Dads, if you want your children to grow up to love God and trust in God; if you want your children to love you and believe in you; if you want your children…
“There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven.” (Ecclesiastes 3:1). When we are anxious, when we grieve, time seems to drag cruelly. When we are joyful,…
“...the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasures hidden in a field which someone has found” (Matthew 13:44). In the lore of a tribe in West Africa, there is a story called “The Legend of the…
“I have loved you, that you also love one another” (John 14:34). Just before Leonard Bernstein’s birthday, the late, great composer, conductor and musician was asked by the New York Times to write an article.…
“Think of the love the Father has lavished on us” (I John 3:1). A decade or so ago, the rock singer, Peter Frampton, recorded a song called “Wind of Change” in which he sings these…
“He who does not love abides in death” (I John 3:14). Sister Ann was a medical missionary from St. Louis. She was a physician and a poet and a woman of extraordinary grace. When only…
“We love because He first loved us.” (I John 4:19). Erich Fromm, in “The Art of Loving,” simply states that without loving relationships there can be no love. In our everyday lives we all too…
“Happy are your eyes because they see, your ears because they hear” (Mt. 13:16). There is a fascinating book called “Lost In The Cosmos,”1 in which the author wonders about us moderns, “who spend millions…
“…insofar as you did this to one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did it to Me” (Matthew 25:40). Do you remember the Parable of the Last Judgment in which Jesus clearly…
“Such as My love has been for you, so must your love be for each other” (John 13:34). It happened at a fast-food restaurant: A small boy hopped down from where he sat with his…
“Marriage is to be honored by all” (Hebrews 13:4). The following questions about love, courtship and marriage were posed to kids ages five to ten. Their answers below are enlightening: WHAT DO MOST PEOPLE DO…