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Heartfelt Love: Serving the Lord with Diligence and Zeal
The Christian life is one of love: active, holy, and self-sacrificing. In Romans 12, the Paul provides a portrait of sincere, non-hypocritical love in every area of life: personal devotion, community life, daily interactions, and even conflict. We have already...
Humble Love: Affection in the Household of Faith
Previously, in our consideration of the love that Paul exhorts in Romans 12:9–21, we considered the holy nature of Christian love. Love abhors evil and clings to good (v. 9). In v. 10, we see a second characteristic of Christian love: It is humble. “Love one another...
Holy Love: Virtue or Vice?
In a world deeply confused about the nature of love, Romans 12:9–21 serves as a clarion call to believers in Jesus Christ to understand and live out truly Christian love. These verses contain a series of imperatives, each of which is a manifestation of the supreme...
Love: The Queen of Virtues
There is perhaps no book of the Bible that is more loved that Paul’s letter to Rome. Read carefully, its rich theology leaves one profoundly impacted by the glory of the gospel—as, indeed, it left Paul when he wrote it (Romans 11:33–36). Bible readers are familiar...
Kamikaze Christianity
In my early high school years, a friend travelled to the United States for a sporting event. He returned with many wonderful tales of the Land of Liberty, among which was reports of a product called Crystal Pepsi. At the time, PepsiCo had pulled its products from the...
Threatened by Tribalism
On Maundy Thursday in 1994, Rwandan Christians gathered in church buildings to worship God. Together, they sang songs of praise, prayed as one, listened to the word preached, and communed around the Lord’s Table. They worshipped in the true spirit of the day. The word...