For us to remove fear, we must attack it with perfect love. We need help from God to get the fear (whatever kind it is) completely out of us. If we try to remove fear without God’s help, a piece of that fear will remain in us and likely cause us much harm.
Category: Love
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Carrying Kids
I have a bunch of kids. They are now all grown, but countless times my wife and I carried a child of ours on our hips. When I read, “and your daughters shall be carried on the hip” my heart leaped within me.
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God loves you no less
This crushing financial event in my life is why I relate so strongly to King Hezekiah’s actions when an invading force conspired to crush him and all of Judah.
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Steadfast Love
God’s love is strong. His love is resilient. His love is steadfast. It hardly notices a wrong (1 Corinthians 13:5 ESV). God’s love is grounded in truth and reality. He knows all of you.
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Would You Get Me My Sweater?
It’s the laying down of our lives for small things that so easily trips us up.
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The Era of Argument
One of our jobs as representative of Jesus in this world is to absorb the bumps and jolts and thuds that happen around us.
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How do we Love God?
Many people like to quote the scripture, “…God is love.” not knowing the full verse in 1 John 4:8 (ESV), which reads, “Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.”
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The Autumn of Christ’s Earthly Ministry
We live in an area of the country that experiences all four seasons. Recently, I’ve noticed that leaves are starting to fall, nightime temperatures are getting lower, and there is that familiar sense of change in the air. My wife always does a major spring and fall cleaning and sure enough, she’s started getting into […]