And [the two] shall become one flesh – Genesis 2:24
“See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.” ~ 1 John 3:1 Advertisements
Luke 15:11-32 English Standard Version (ESV) The Parable of the Prodigal Son 11 And he said, “There was a man who had two sons. 12 And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.’ And he divided his property between them. 13 Not many days later, the … Continue reading The tender heart of the Father
22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. 25 Husbands, love your … Continue reading Wives and Husbands
But God (Romans 5:8)
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8 ESV http://bible.com/59/rom.5.8.ESV
“This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.” 1 John 4:10 NIV
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich. 2 Corinthians 8:9
For our sake he made him who knew no sin to be sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. -2 Corinthians 5:21 (ESV, slightly modified) Christian, Let that penetrate your soul as it did mine some years ago and almost made me cry.
My beloved put his hand through the keyhole. My heart throbbed for him. – Song of Solomon 5:4 My. Beloved. Put. His. Hand. Through. The. KEYHOLE. That had me like “ 😃 Ooooooooh, thank you Jesus! Please, won’t you please send me my dear Mrs. soon, so I could love her sacrificially… and um, put … Continue reading He put his hand through the keyhole
But God (Ephesians 2:4)
Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. John 13:1
“Redeemer represents a middle ground, he says, between the moralism of conventional right-wing Christianity and what he regards as the do-what-feels-right narcissism of secular culture.” One of the reasons I absolutely love Tim Keller is that he’s one of the exceedingly rare pastors in America who tries to walk the fine line between theological conservatism … Continue reading Why Are So Many New Yorkers Flocking to Evangelical Christian Preacher Tim Keller? — New York Magazine
“The Son of God took on flesh, the ruler of the universe became an infant. The Lord of all glory allowed Himself to be nursed and fed by a Hebrew teenage couple, and to be ridiculed, ignored, mocked, scorned and then crucified because He loves us so much. That’s humility. Lord help us to walk … Continue reading Infinite condescension, eye-popping humility
Ephesians 2:1-10 (ESV) By Grace Through Faith And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once … Continue reading It is by Grace You Have Been Saved
