By staying close to God and following his guidance, we can fill our homes with joy, love, intimacy, and resilience.
Thinking about others is a deliberate choice, and it’s the most inspiring way we can live our lives.
God is our greatest example of love, and from him, we can learn how to love the people around us
The question is not whether we have a sense of divine purpose, but how we’re trying to satisfy it.
The Bible is full of people who have learned from God how to be friends that understand, connect with, admire, challenge, and love each other.
A lot of the problems we get into in life come because we are searching for love—often in all the wrong places.
When we love God with all of our hearts, we will have the capacity to love people wholeheartedly and live out the exciting destiny God has for each of us.
Jesus loved the rich young ruler enough to offer him a way out of rule-following by asking him to make a decision to be close to him.
This parable will help us understand what it feels like to be lost and how God responds to that feeling by always trying to bring us home.
But how do we become a light that shines brightly before others? The first step is making sure we choose not to live in darkness ourselves.