If you respect God but do not fear Him, you will consider His commandments negotiable.
Knowledge and love are inseparable in the Christian life. You need knowledge in order to be free, but your knowledge obligates you to handle others in a loving way.
Many confuse biblical love with grace. They are not synonyms. Let’s define grace as commitment without reciprocity, unconditional acceptance based on the performance of Jesus Christ on our behalf. Faith is commitment before knowing.
The world, on the other hand, encourages individualism, which leads to isolation. Children are encouraged to draw away from their families, indulging their own appetites. The heroes of entertainment portray lives of hedonism and selfishness.
Forgetting and remembering are opposite but important disciplines in the Christian life. The Bible charges you with the task of both.
If you have to prove your love by meeting the expectations of another, you will never succeed. Such an endeavor is like trying to fill a bottomless pit.
Unity and union are not the same. You can unite in marriage, and thus be in union with one another, and not have unity.
If you allow reason to be your final court of appeal, you will end in disobedience and heresy. The Bible does not call you to resolution, but to application.
The Oxford English Dictionary takes five pages to define “love.” You demonstrate your love for God by a life of obedience.
If you have difficulty determining what God is doing in your own life, you have an impossible task making such a determination in the life of another.
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