What provides a moral compass for children and adults alike? This writer believes the answer is found in the scriptures.

God's command to love. 23. Matthew 22:37-39 "Jesus said to him, 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the first and great ...

The text we’ve been studying the last few Fridays instructs Christians to “make every effort to supply your faith with virtue; and virtue with knowledge …” (2 Peter 1:5). Th… ...

Scripture says that Jesus’ death is new life for us: ... Now I, with the power of my own flesh, have to love others as Jesus did.” Jesus is not just saddling us with more responsibilities.

Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep” (Jn 21:17). Today’s Gospel is from the very last chapter of John, and in it, Jesus reveals himself to the disciples for the third and final time after his ...

He noted that Jesus became "more despised" because he preached a message of love "in response to Roman oppression.". During the life of Jesus, many people turned away from his message because he ...

The God who comes to us in Jesus doesn’t want grudging submission; he wants us to love him and be loved by him. He wants relationship, including friendship, and so he came in vulnerability, not ...