John 3 Study
Today, I would like to explore John 3. This chapter is known for a few things, but one thing you may not have considered is how John touches upon the subject of the Holy Spirit.
Category: Love
Love Is From the Heart
Here’s one for those who deride love as being an emotion. 22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: ~ 1Pe 1:22 I’ll just leave this right…
Love Is NOT Keeping the Commandments!
“Mommy Sandwich” Photo credit: ~PhotograTree~ via photopin cc 10 Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec. 11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. 12 For when for the time ye ought to be…
Science, Fallibility and Love
Harry Harlow with a “wire mother” surrogate nurse and a rhesus monkey subject Hard as it is to believe, during the early Twentieth Century, a whole school of mental health professionals decided that unconditional love was a terrible thing to give a child. The government printed pamphlets warning mothers against…
Can Cognitive Dissonance Explain the False Equating of Keeping the Commandments to Love?
“Moses with the Ten Commandments” Original painting by Rembrandt Is a car an automobile? Careful how you answer. I like to think about things and put them in logical categories, but there is always a danger in doing so. A few months back, Seth Godin wrote “Your first mistake might…
What You Haven’t Been Told: Why Were You Born? What Is the Purpose of Your Life?
Earth, as seen from Apollo 17 (click on photo for full resolution) 3 After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. 2 And Job spoke, and said: 3 “May the day perish on which I was born, And the night in which it was said,…
What Are You Willing to Live For?
Plaque at Wheaton College honoring Jim Elliot and Ed McCully for giving their lives on a mission to Ecuador He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose. ~ diary entry of missionary Jim Elliot just before his death Yesterday in “What…
What Are You Willing to Die For?
Malala Yousafzai, 2013 13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. ~ Jn 15:13 What are you willing to die for? It’s not a frivolous question. It shows your priorities. The very fact that Jesus would state that there is…
Valentine’s Day, Love and Forgiveness
Well, today is supposed to be a day about “love”, but is it really? Dr Bob Thiel (aka, COGWriter) recently wrote about the “Pagan Origins of Valentine’s Day” and today responds to a Christianity Today article on the topic in “CT: Worldly ‘Christianity’ and Valentine’s Day”. Not only should we…
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Love Is From the Heart
Here’s one for those who deride love as being an emotion. 22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: ~ 1Pe 1:22 I’ll just leave this right…
Love Is NOT Keeping the Commandments!
“Mommy Sandwich” Photo credit: ~PhotograTree~ via photopin cc 10 Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec. 11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. 12 For when for the time ye ought to be…
Science, Fallibility and Love
Harry Harlow with a “wire mother” surrogate nurse and a rhesus monkey subject Hard as it is to believe, during the early Twentieth Century, a whole school of mental health professionals decided that unconditional love was a terrible thing to give a child. The government printed pamphlets warning mothers against…
Can Cognitive Dissonance Explain the False Equating of Keeping the Commandments to Love?
“Moses with the Ten Commandments” Original painting by Rembrandt Is a car an automobile? Careful how you answer. I like to think about things and put them in logical categories, but there is always a danger in doing so. A few months back, Seth Godin wrote “Your first mistake might…
What You Haven’t Been Told: Why Were You Born? What Is the Purpose of Your Life?
Earth, as seen from Apollo 17 (click on photo for full resolution) 3 After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. 2 And Job spoke, and said: 3 “May the day perish on which I was born, And the night in which it was said,…
What Are You Willing to Live For?
Plaque at Wheaton College honoring Jim Elliot and Ed McCully for giving their lives on a mission to Ecuador He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose. ~ diary entry of missionary Jim Elliot just before his death Yesterday in “What…
What Are You Willing to Die For?
Malala Yousafzai, 2013 13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. ~ Jn 15:13 What are you willing to die for? It’s not a frivolous question. It shows your priorities. The very fact that Jesus would state that there is…
Valentine’s Day, Love and Forgiveness
Well, today is supposed to be a day about “love”, but is it really? Dr Bob Thiel (aka, COGWriter) recently wrote about the “Pagan Origins of Valentine’s Day” and today responds to a Christianity Today article on the topic in “CT: Worldly ‘Christianity’ and Valentine’s Day”. Not only should we…