How did Jesus love the church?

We must go all the way back to the beginning.

Will I take a stand for what I know is right?

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 […]

Joy in our hearts brings gladness to all around us.