Category: Know Love (1, 2, 3 John)

Imitate What Is Good

I grew up in a time and a place where WWJD? (“What would Jesus do?”) bracelets were popular. There were so many of them in my day it spawned parodies and became almost cliche.  But, at the heart of it, it’s a great question to ask in any situation. What

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Love: The Way of the Disciple

“I have no greater joy than this: to hear that my children are living according to truth.” 3 John 4 A few years ago, a college mentor reached out to me after having not been in contact for years. We had been incredibly close during my undergraduate experience, but life

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Obedience and Love

“(Now this is love: that we walk according to his commandments.) This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning; thus you should walk in it.” – 2 John 6 This is one of the most interesting and captivating aspect of Scripture to me; it’s simple and

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Walking in Truth

There’s no denying the power of truth. The word truth is spoken five times in the first four verses of 2 John. The foundation of our faith is completely based on truth, and we see this in John 8:32, which says, “and you will know the truth, and the truth

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The Testimony

When I visited Israel, one of the most significant places for me during the trip was our visit to the Jordan river. It looked nothing like I envisioned. Whenever I thought about the Jordan river I’d pictured a lush river bank, full of green trees and lots of grass. I

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Reside in God’s Love 

And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him. – 1 John 4:16 We have the capacity to love well, to love deeply, to love

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Love Requires Action

I was busy preparing for Bible study—arranging comfy chairs, lighting a scented candle, laying out our curriculum—when I was overcome with love for the women in my group. We are a small group of women in our 20s and 30s. Some of us are working corporate jobs and some of

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Unlimited Love

Have you ever read anything about love languages, or spent some time figuring out how you prefer to receive love? When my husband and I were going through our pre-marital counseling we took a test to see what our love languages were. Over the past fourteen years of marriage I

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Love One Another

It’s often said that newborn babies are more likely to look like their dads than their mums. This seems a little unfair given all that the mums have gone through! In today’s reading the apostle John wrote to fellow believers, and he again affectionately described them as little children. John’s

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Don’t Be Deceived By Lies

The letters John wrote are heavy letters with lots of deep doctrines, warnings, exhortations, and encouragements. One of the reasons for this is that all the apostles were dead with the exception of John himself. He was the last of the apostles, which is why many scholars believe the “last

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