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The Status of Romance in America and the Surprising Path to Our Best Lives

The Status of Romance in America and the Surprising Path to Our Best Lives

Would you like your marriage and other significant relationships to be stronger and more loving? The answer is found in a place many of us would never think to look.

The Real Love of Valentine’s Day

The Real Love of Valentine’s Day
Wednesday is Valentine’s Day, marked by many with romantic dates, gifts of flowers and chocolates, and expressions of love to our significant other. Many forget that it is, more accurately, Saint Valentine’s Day (or the Feast of Saint Valentine). Saint Valentine of Rome was a third-century Roman saint who is commemorated on February 14, the day he was martyred and buried. It has been honored that way since A.D. 496.

How to Love Well

How to Love Well

Christians have a unique gift for our culture today: we alone can demonstrate the kindness of Christ by offering our best service to hurting souls while sharing the good news of God’s love. But we cannot love well until we embrace the fact that we are well loved.

Logos Are Iconic, So What Sort of Logo Would Christ Have Us Display?

Logos Are Iconic, So What Sort of Logo Would Christ Have Us Display?

Love is the final measure of our faith. It’s the closest we can come to the heart of God. It’s the best way we can communicate the Logos—the Lord Jesus Christ—to the world around us. That’s the greatest trademark secret of all. We are known by our love.

Proclaiming Human Dignity with Infectious Joy: Heart by Max

Proclaiming Human Dignity with Infectious Joy: Heart by Max

I’m often asked, among all of Chuck Colson’s work—Breakpoint commentaries, books, speeches, important statements like the Manhattan Declaration—what I consider to be the most powerful thing he ever wrote. Without hesitation, I always point to the opening and epilogue of Dancing With Max, a book authored by Emily Colson about her son (and Chuck’s grandson) Max.

Loving Our Neighbor as Ourselves Is the Ethic That Enables a Democracy to Thrive

Loving Our Neighbor as Ourselves Is the Ethic That Enables a Democracy to Thrive

Loving our neighbor as ourselves is the ethic that enables a democracy to thrive. We cannot make enough laws and hire enough police officers to force all 331 million Americans to treat each other well. But when we love God, we will love everyone he loves—and he loves everyone. We will be a nation not just of laws but of love.

Agape Love Should Be Our Goal

Agape Love Should Be Our Goal

Jesus advised us in the so-called Golden Rule, “Whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them” (Matthew 7:12). He also taught us to “love your neighbor as yourself” (Matthew 22:39, quoting Leviticus 19:18). Over the years, when I have followed his instruction, I have discovered this pattern: when I love my neighbor as myself, I love myself more. This enables me to love my neighbor more, which enables me to love myself more. And on the pattern goes.

But what if this pattern is not a coincidental product of chaotic chance but one dimension of our Creator’s design for us and our world?

3 Ways to Love Our Lord

3 Ways to Love Our Lord

So, how do we love Jesus when it’s hard to love Jesus? The good news is that we don’t have to try harder to do better. Love is a “fruit” of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22). To love God’s Son well—or anyone else, for that matter—we must therefore have the help of God’s Spirit. Here’s how:

People Judge Our Father by His Children

People Judge Our Father by His Children

We have focused this week on our status as the children of God and its implications for our lives and faith. Today, let’s consider this fact: people judge our Father by his children. When we are loving, kind, and compassionate, they are more likely to think the same of our Lord. When we are hateful and condemning, they are likely to see our Lord in the same way.

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