“If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love” —John 15:10 Obedience and love are not the same. One is the reason and one is the result. One can be defined merely by action while the other requires affection. One is relational, the other […]
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” —John 14:15 “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love.” —John 15:9-10 The key to sanctification is loving Christ. […]
The most powerful message ever preached was from Christ’s pulpit of love—the cross. From it we hear, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (Jn 3:16). From it we […]
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments” —John 14:15 Keeping Christ’s commandments is the best test of love to Christ. This is a lesson of vast importance and one that needs continually pressing on the attention of Christians. It is not talking about religion, […]
Jonathan Edwards patently modeled the importance of resolutions in the aid of deliberate living—a life disciplined in the graces of Christ. His first resolution reads: Resolved, That I will do whatsoever I think to be most to the glory of God, and my own good, profit, […]