John 13:34 – A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 1 John 4:12 – 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. Some of…
Continue ReadingRevelation 1:12 – I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned I saw seven golden lampstands, So very many times I have cried out, reached with outstretched arms, begging to receive within me what I could not fully know or fully contain, but could not live…
Continue ReadingLuke 2:49-50 – “Why were you searching for me?” he asked. “Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?” 50 But they did not understand what he was saying to them. Family, today I believe the Lord has led me to send out a slightly modified version of a letter that this morning I sent…
Continue ReadingLuke 10:20 – However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven. Family, our home is not here. I love my country and would, with all of its faults, I choose no other place to live. I’m blessed that I live in a location minutes…
Continue ReadingPsalm 136:1-9 – Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good. His love endures forever. 2 Give thanks to the God of gods. His love endures forever. 3 Give thanks to the Lord of lords: His love endures forever. 4 to Him who alone does great wonders, His love endures forever. 5 who by his understanding made the heavens, His love endures forever. 6 who spread…
Continue Reading2 John 4-6 – It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father commanded us. 5 And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another. 6 And this is love: that we walk in…
Continue Reading2 John 1-3 – The elder, To the lady chosen by God and to her children, whom I love in the truth—and not I only, but also all who know the truth— 2 because of the truth, which lives in us and will be with us forever: 3 Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the…
Continue Reading1 John 5:1-5 – Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. 2 This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. 3 In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not…
Continue Reading1 John 4:7-8 – Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. The following story, one of my favorites from early church history, is credited to Jerome (AD 345-420)…
Continue Reading1 John 3:19-24 – 19 This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: 20 If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and He knows everything. 21 Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God 22 and…
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