For you have been called to live in freedom, my brothers and sisters. But don’t use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love. For the whole law can be summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Galatians 5:13 (NLT) Live in freedom—use… Read More
We always need love
The need for love doesn’t just disappear when we reach adulthood. It is at the center of our emotional desires. We are made in God’s image, and his love is poured out all over us. But because we have boxed in love and developed incomplete and sometimes unhealthy definitions of it, it can be hard… Read More
What’s your love language?
Love doesn’t do well in solitary confinement. It needs to be communicated. We are commanded to show love to our children, our spouses, our friends, our neighbors, and our world. Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples. John 13:35, NLT But do those around us recognize what… Read More
Loved as a child
You parents—if your children ask for a loaf of bread, do you give them a stone instead? Or if they ask for a fish, do you give them a snake? Of course not! So if you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts… Read More
Misguided perceptions of love
We receive love in childhood through affection, wise discipline, affirmation, laughter, play, prayer . . . in lots of ways both large and small. We start to make our own lists of what love is while we are still in the womb, and we add to it throughout our childhood. Then we put it in… Read More
How do you define love?
The Word of God tells us what love is and what it is not. We often don’t realize that our personal definitions and the definition from scripture don’t line up. We may be able to quote the love chapter (1 Corinthians 13), but still don’t realize all the clauses that we have added to… Read More
We need to feel loved
The need to feel loved is a primary human emotional need. To get it, we’ll climb mountains, ford streams, sail across seas, traverse deserts, and endure incredible hardships. Without it, we tire out in the foothills, hate to get our feet wet, get seasick, make it only as far as the first oasis, and bail… Read More
Kathleen S Evenhouse 