There is a reward to obedience.

How did Jesus love the church?

We must go all the way back to the beginning.

Embrace its overpowering and overwhelming nature.

Love never fails.

How many times shall I forgive?

We were chosen and dearly loved!

Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all. I think what Paul is trying to communicate here is that as Christ followers we are operating in a different, elevated zone. I think back to coaching my oldest son's baseball team […]

Jesus set the standard for us to follow.