In the Gospel of Luke 10:25-37, as Jesus expounds on the two greatest commandments, to love God with all of who we are and to love our neighbor as ourself, we encounter an amazing story.Jesus unveils the great truth that we are to love our neighbor as ourself and he gets this unique response:“But the …
What is Love? part 3
Love is not about feelings, but about deciding with our wills. C. S. Lewis says it this way: "Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to …
What is Love? part 2
Love is not feelings. On the contrary - and this is going to sound rather cold, dull and unexciting (not like warm fuzzies) - love flows out of the will. It is a choice. Read these words: "This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as …
What is Love? part 1
Most often, love is associated with feelings. Whether it's in romance or with family or with friends or in a situation where you're helping someone, we usually connect love with that sort of overwhelming feeling of soft, warm, gushy goodness. Warm fuzzies. They well up within us. "I feel loved" or "I feel loving" right …
Sabbath
Sabbath is one of those terms that you do not hear much anymore. The idea of keeping the sabbath sounds a bit like archaic references to an earlier time. The reference points don't exist, or at least they don't exist in the same way that they did. Keeping the sabbath is one of the earliest …
Matthew Erickson 