How You Can Love by Faith - Part 2
This is Part 2 of a 4 part series - How You Can Love by Faith
Five truths about love
But what is agape love? How does this kind of love express itself? Paul gives us an excellent description:
"Love is very patient and kind, never jealous or envious, never boastful or proud, never haughty or selfish or rude. Love does not demand its own way....
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He is Faithful!
Our daughter...a lesbian?
Suddenly my heart felt like ice. How could she, a Christian, be involved in such despicable behavior?
Pat, our eldest daughter, had always been an outgoing, aggressive and often willful girl. I knew she had great potential but in her teenage years, although a Christian, she demonstrated a restlessness and lack of direction...
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A Healing Journey
Secret -concealed from general knowledge or view, hidden. (Webster's Dictionary)
There are different kinds of secrets. Some are things hidden from our understanding, sometimes called the mysteries of life: how they built the pyramids, miracles, unexplained events. There are military secrets - confidential military matters, the CIA and spies. There...
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How You Can Love by Faith
This is Part 1 of a 4 part series - How You Can Love by Faith
The greatest power ever known
The beautiful ballroom of the Marriott Hotel in Chicago was crowded to capacity with more than 1,300 college students and Campus Crusade staff. They seemed to hang on to every word as I explained one of the most exciting spiritual discoveries that I...
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LOVE According to the BIBLE
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
If I could speak in any language in heaven or on earth but didn't love others, I would only be making meaningless noise like a loud gong or a clanging cymbal.
If I had the gift of prophecy and if I knew all the mysteries of the future and knew everything about everything, but didn't love others, what good would I...
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A Cinderella Story
I grew up wanting to get married and live happily ever after, just like Cinderella. When Charlie proposed to me, I carefully laid the groundwork for my dream. “I’m going to put you first in my life,” I said. “Will you put me first in your life?” He said he would. But, literally, as soon as the honeymoon was over, all Charlie’s courting...
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She’s My Precious (condensed)
Written six years after stepping down as president of Columbia Bible College and Seminary to care for his wife, Muriel, who suffers from Alzheimer’s.
Seventeen summers ago, Muriel and I began our journey into the twilight. It’s midnight now, at least for her, and sometimes I wonder when dawn will break. Even the dread of Alzheimer’s disease...
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