FIVE LOVES In his excellent book, Love Life for Every Married Couple, Ed Wheat wrote concerning the English word "love": "Just having the one word for everything leads to confusion and absurd comparisons. For example,…
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AGAPE LOVE IS A DECISION Agape love is a decision to consider the needs of others ahead of your own needs . . . to live sacrificially. . .to give without demanding a return .…
MEANING & PURPOSE: The modern rabbi, Harold Cushner. . .in his recent book, When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough. . . writes, I believe that it is not dying that people are afraid of.…
DO YOU LOVE ME? Between the time of His resurrection and his ascension, Jesus challenged Peter concerning Peter's love for Jesus. Twice Jesus asks Peter if Peter loves Jesus. The word recorded in the New…
TWO REASONS FOR CONFLICT After years of study, researchers have determined that there are two primary reasons for marital conflict: husbands and wives.
SHIRLEY DOBSON ON HUMOR Shirley Dobson tells about one of the initial attractions toward her husband Jim: "Another thing that drew me to Jim was his wonderful sense of humor. Even on our first few…
WALKING IN AGREEMENT Gary Smalley clearly illustrates Amos 3:3 by sharing a principle that he and his wife Norma agreed to establish in their marriage relationship. Amos 3:3 reads in the New International Version: "Do…
LIFE STILL HAS ITS PROBLEMS My Dad had a nickname for me which I hated. I couldn't stand it. And it never failed, he'd always use it at the most horrible moment possible. He was…
LOVE'S RISK Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth…
LOVE'S GRATEFUL SMILE One evening we went out, and we picked up four people from the street. And one of them was in a most terrible condition. I told the sisters, "You take care of…
UNITY MATTERS Unity matters to God. The Father does not want his kids to squabble. Disunity disturbs him. Why? Because "all people will know that you are my followers if you love each other" John…
PRECIOUS EXCHANGE The Chilean poet Pablo Neruda told a beautiful story of an event in his childhood involving an act of spontaneous, unmotivated sharing, of love, which had a wonderful, lasting effect on him and…
GRACE & HUMILITY Pride blows us up like balloons, but grace punctures our conceit and lets the hot, proud air out of our system. The result . . . is that we shrink, and end…
GOD LOST HIS SON We have heard that God loved us so much that He gave His only Son to die on the cross. We have heard it so often that it conjures up very…
THE LOST HEART Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his…
DOING GREAT THINGS We cannot all do great things. But we can do small things with great love. Mother Theresa
JOYFUL HEARTS BURNING WITH LOVE A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love. -- Mother Theresa
LOVE HUNGRY The world today is hungry not only for bread but hungry for love; hungry to be wanted, hungry to be loved. -- Mother Theresa
ONE SOUL IN TWO BODIES Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." -- Aristotle
LOVE & NEED Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm
