Tag Archives: Love

Love is patient… Is this impossible?

My wife would be the first to tell you that I am extremely impatient. In 2003, my wife and I (She was just a girlfriend then) were skiing with some friends. I decided to teach my wife how to ski, in much the same way I taught a friend a few years prior. This friend [...]

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Letters from a Skeptic | Book Review

The last couple of weeks I have been digesting a pretty thought-provoking book called Letters from a Skeptic: A Son Wrestles with His Father’s Questions about Christianityby Dr. Gregory Boyd. The basic premise in this book originates from a collection of correspondence the Christian author and the skeptic father. The author is an Apologetic’s teacher at a Christian University and the [...]

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How Can I Love my Neighbor as Myself?

When I read about loving your neighbor as yourself (Matthew 22:34-40) it hits me hard. God says the most important commandment is to love your god and the second is to love your neighbor as yourself. In verse 40 is says “On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.” This is huge [...]

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Why did Jesus have to die?

Let me be clear, Jesus did not HAVE to die. Jesus chose to die. Jesus chose to take on all the sins of the world and as a result took the judgment that that sin brought forth. As a result of our sins, Jesus had to die because our Lord, and savior took our sins, [...]

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How should we love?

As part of my new years resolution, I am exploring the fruits of the spirit each month. The first fruit of the spirti is love, and is perhaps the greatest fruit of all, but how are we to love? In John 13:12-17 Jesus washes the feet of his disciples as an example of how they [...]

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