Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 1 John 4.8. Loving God wholeheartedly lies at the heart of spiritual health, and the more we love Him, the healthier we are. Echoing the spiritual giants throughout history, C.S. Lewis says, “Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is […]
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For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and has departed for Thessalonica—Crescens for Galatia, Titus for Dalmatia.” 2 Timothy 4.10. Still looking at our love for God, we find Paul’s statements here interesting. This sounds more like the lamentation of a man who felt let down and betrayed. Let us look at
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And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. But the one who endures to the end will be saved. Matthew 24.12,13. We seem to be living in a strange world. The fast pace of iniquities embedded in our so-called civilization is alarming. The world system is spiraling out of control
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Now as they heard these things, He spoke another parable, because He was near Jerusalem and because they thought the kingdom of God would appear immediately. Therefore He said: “A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return. So he called ten of his servants, delivered to
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And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years.” Genesis 1.14. In most parts of the world we have the winter, spring, summer, autumn. Even in sub Sahara Africa where
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When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” John 21.15. “To be forewarned is to be forearmed”, as they say. Jesus gathered the
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But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come:People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good.” 2 Timothy 3.1-3. Jesus in response to the question on the signs of the
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To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, And a time to die; A time to plant, And a time to pluck what is planted; A time to kill, And a time to heal; A time to break down,And a time to build up. Ecclesiastes
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And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings. Acts 17.26. When we look at the vastness and complexity of the world today, it is incredible and amazing at the same time.
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Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the LORD, and spoke, saying: “I will sing to the LORD, For He has triumphed gloriously!The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea! The LORD is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation; He is my God, and
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