1 Corinthians 13: 4 Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag. Boy, you ought to see the synonyms for this one. Here are some of the ones my computer thesaurus retrieved for braggart: boaster, showoff, bigmouth, loudmouth, windbag and egotist. Interesting, huh? I am especially intrigued by “egotist.” […]
1 Corinthians 13: 4 Love is patient, love is kind, and [love] is not jealous. We have heard that God is a jealous God (Exodus 20: 5), so how does this make sense? Well, it is true. As the song says, “God don’t play second fiddle.” He will have no other gods before Him. However, […]
1 Corinthians 13: 4 Love is patient, love is kind. Kindness is a consistent theme all through the Bible. God has continually shown His kindness to mankind. In the 25th Psalm David wrote, “Remember, O Lord, Your compassion and Your lovingkindnesses, For they have been from of old” (v. 6). David recognized and proclaimed that […]
1 Corinthians 13: 4 Love is patient . . . Would you like to know the character traits of God? Did you realize they are listed in the Bible? Yep, they are. You see 1 John 4: 8 tells us that God is love. Then we read here in Corinthians that “love is” patient . […]
Luke 15: 20 And he got up and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion for him, and ran and embraced him, and kissed him. You all know the story of the prodigal son and how he went off to another town […]
Psalm 9: 10 For Thou, O Lord, hast not forsaken those who seek Thee. There are thousands of promises in the Bible. However, they aren’t numbered so that you can go look them up one by one. Here is one though, which perhaps you should mark with a tab and some highlighting so that you […]
Psalm 36: 5 – 12 God’s Word O Lord, your mercy reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies. Your righteousness is like the mountains of God, your judgments like the deep ocean. You save people and animals, O Lord. Your mercy is so precious, O God, […]