It wasn’t the freedom of the Christian who pretends that things are all right when they’re not. It was the freedom that only believers who have faced pain and tragedy know. It was the freedom of Jesus who, when we’ve lost it all, invites us to laugh, dance and sing in his presence, knowing that [...]
Posts Tagged ‘God’s Love’
True Freedom Is Wrought Only Through Pain and Tragedy
Posted in Brown, Steve, tagged Christian, Freedom, God's Love, Pain, Tragedy on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When Power Ceases To Be and Freedom Becomes
Posted in Brown, Steve, tagged Freedom, God's Love, Gospel, Grace, Guilty, Power, Religion on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Whenever religion becomes leverage, it ceases to be the religion of Jesus. The gospel of God’s grace takes away the leverage. Why? Because if I’m forgiven without condition, you can’t make me feel guilty. If God loves me, you can’t manipulate me by threatening to take away your love. If God knows my secrets and [...]
Bad Stuff and The Love and Sovereignty of God
Posted in Brown, Steve, tagged Freedom, God, God's Love, God's Sovereignty on October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If the bad stuff in life comes from (or is allowed by) a monster God, I will continue to seethe with anger. If the bad stuff comes from a weenie God, I will tell him that he is wrong and that I won’t have anything to do with him anymore. But if the bad stuff [...]
Sometimes I Don’t Do It Right
Posted in Brown, Steve, tagged God's Love, Grace, Religious on October 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes I don’t do it right. At times I get tired of being “religious” an don’t do it. Other times I get so rebellious that even my mother, if she were still alive, would think about disowning me. But, dear friend, you have never met a man who wants to please God more than I [...]
Why is Psalm 63:1-5 not an Honest Reflection of Our Lives?
Posted in Chan, Francis, tagged God's Love, Joy, Pleasure, Psalm 63, Relationship with God on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There is often a great disparity between how we feel about faith and how we are meant to feel. Why do so few people genuinely find joy and pleasure in their relationship with God! Why do most people eel they have to either pay God back for all He’s done (by His love) or somehow [...]
Something Supernatural Must Happen In Order for Us to Love God
Posted in Chan, Francis, tagged God's Love, Holy Spirit, Loving God on August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The fact is I need God to help me love God. And if I need His help to love Him, a perfect being, I definitely need His help to love other, fault-filled humans. Something mysterious, even supernatural must happen in order for genuine love for God to grow in our hearts. The Holy Spirit has [...]
He Persists with an Unending, Outrageous Love
Posted in Chan, Francis, tagged God's Love on August 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So there is an incalculable, faultless eternal God who loves the frail beings He made with a crazy kind of love. Even though we could die at any moment and generally think our puny lives are pretty sweet compared to loving Him. He persists in loving us with unending, outrageous love.
- Francis Chan, Crazy Love: [...]
A Strange Inheritance Indeed
Posted in Chan, Francis, tagged God's Love, Ephesians 1, God's Holiness, God's Omnipotence, God's Omniscience, Inheritance on August 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The very fact that a holy, eternal, all knowing, all powerful, merciful, fair and just God loves you and me is nothing short of astounding.
The wildest part is that Jesus doesn’t have to love us. His being is utterly complete and perfect, apart from humanity. He doesn’t need me or you. Yet He wants us, [...]
To Die for Valuable Men Would Not be Divine but Only Heroic
Posted in Lewis, C.S., tagged Christ's Death, Equality, God's Love, Love, Sinners, Value of Man on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
God did not die for man because of some value He perceived in him. The value of each human soul considered simply in itself, out of relation to God, is zero. As St. Paul writes, to have died for valuable men would have been not divine but merely heroic; but God died for sinners. He [...]
To Protect Your Affections, You Need to be Careful of Two Things
Posted in Lundgaard, Kris, tagged Affections, Colossians 3, Galatians 6, God's Love, God's Wisdom, Mystery of the Gospel on July 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To protect your affections, you need to be careful of two things: the object of your affections, and the vigor of your affections. And the object of your affections, what you fix your eyes on, should always be heavenly things: “Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things” (Colossians 3:2). Fix your affections [...]
