Following Jesus is all about losing your life. In His eyewitness account of Christ, Luke wrote, Then he said to them all,“If anyone wants to follow after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me will save …
Our culture provides various options for how to define love. Most of them look like the “second hand emotion” that Tina Turner sings about in her 80’s hit “What’s Love Got to Do With It”? People in our society throw the word love around rather flippantly. It seems to be some nebulous feeling that comes and goes with the changing …
Do you live your life with open hands? The Psalmist writes: The heavens are yours; the earth also is yours. The world and everything in it — you founded them. Psalms 89:11 (CSB) Do you live with the understanding that everything belongs to God? Ultimately, we own nothing. We are merely stewards of what God has given to us. He …
