Read: Luke 6:38 | To love my neighbor as myself, do I need to forfeit my own happiness? Author, teacher John Piper [Link] notes that the first commandment – to love God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength – makes the second commandment – to love our neighbor as yourself- doable and takes […]
Read: Mark 12:30-31 NIV | Jesus memorized the Shema as a boy, according to Jewish customs. The Shema is the central prayer in the Jewish prayer-book [Hebrew for Christians]. The first part of the prayer begins with Deuteronomy 6:4-9. As a practicing Jew, Jesus would have recited the Shema at least twice daily – every […]
Read: Mark 12:30-31 NIV | Daniel Webster, a leading political leader, lawyer and orator during the period up to the Civil War attended a select banquet in his honor. At the cocktail hour, one man asked Mr. Webster, “Sir, what is the greatest thought that ever entered your mind?” Without hesitation, Webster replied, “The greatest […]
Read: Mark 12:30-31 NIV | I can imagine someone saying, “I would like to have just enough Jesus. I want just enough to save my soul, but not so much that my soul catches fire for the Lord. I want to be saved, but I still want to pay back my enemies. I do not […]
Read: Mark 12:30-31 NIV | God blessed me with a son, Jordan. Jordan has a strong resemblance to me. In fact, if I shared our infant pictures taken from around the same age it would be hard to know which belongs to me versus him. He is my son, our child. Even though he has […]
