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What if all Christians do love the Lord their God with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength? (Before you close this window with accusations of heresy, I encourage you to stick with me for a minute.) Many of us know the conversation between Jesus and the Pharisee: “‘Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?’ And [Jesus] said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind'” (Matthew 22:36-37). Jesus is citing a famous Old Testament text…
When the apostle John urged his readers, “Do not love the world or the things of the world” (1 John 2:15), he was not being legalistic, or a crotchety old man focused only on morals, or a negative Nancy. Rather, he was caring for those he was writing to. And God, through him, was loving us…
In the collection of writings and letters known as The Practice of the Presence of God, Brother Lawrence continually urges his readers to consistently seek to recognize God’s presence. On this idea, he writes, “Above all, get a habit of entertaining yourself often with God, and forget Him the least you can”…
One of Paul’s simplest commands I can think of is his command to “pursue love” (1 Corinthians 14:1). It comes as he is writing to a divided church, a church filled with people who are so focused on their own personal gifts, a church that is puffed up in many ways. And in this setting, Paul says simply but powerfully, “pursue love”…
It is so tempting to think that Christianity (and God himself) is all about rules. That God is just the high and mighty authoritative Being who simply wants us to do certain things and doesn’t want us to do other things. But when we read the Bible, it actually becomes clear that this isn’t the God of the Bible. This isn’t Christianity at all. God is supreme, majestic, and ruling over all. But it isn’t God’s heart at all just to give us rules because he just wants to control us…
In the edited book, Worldliness, C.J. Mahaney explains in the opening chapter why worldliness is so serious. After showing the importance of loving Jesus above all else biblically, and after debunking the idea that fighting worldliness is legalism, he ends the first chapter of the book with a powerful, brief sentence summarizing it all. He writes…
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