Love Truth Blog

On Friday, June 26, 2015, a 5-4 SCOTUS struck down state bans on same-sex marriage nationwide. Millions voiced their approval of the verdict on social media using the hastag #lovewins. So, I ask myself, “What’s love got to do with it?” Love is a powerful word, but hardly something that is omnipotent, good, and pure. Simply because we love a person, place, or thing does not mean our affections are leading us in the right direction. Many Christians have been instructed: “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him” (1 John 2:15, ESV). Solomon, the wisest Old Testament saint, loved many women, but they led him astray, leading him into detestable pagan practices, and leaving him with only a half-hearted devotion to the Lord (1 Kings 11:1-8). If #lovewins it is because God is love and God demonstrates to us the way to love. Something Christians can own up to is that on account of the fall, we are all sexually brok...

I am really left aghast in the wake of the June 17, 2015 mass shooting of the nine worshipers in the Emmanuel African Episcopal Methodist Church in Charleston, South Carolina. It is heinousness of such an unspeakable act of evil which leaves me speechless. The names of those lives taken can never be forgotten: Cynthia Marie Graham Hurd Susie Jackson Ethel Lee Lance Dr. Depayne Middleton Clementa Pinckney Tywanza Sanders Daniel Simmons Sharonda Coleman-Singleton Myra Thompson Who could imagine the 21 year old lad, Dylan Storm Roof, could commit such a devilish atrocity, for what, but to start a race war. Just what would make one child of Adam and Eve’s soul so corrupt that he would destroy the lives of other children of Adam and Eve, with the intent that other descendants of Adam and Eve would be spurred on to kill off one another? Such an evil is unspeakable. Can anyone every answer the “why” question? The Apostle John, without giving a simple “why” answer, ...

Measuring things can be a crucial task. If a car has a broken fuel gauge, the doors open for some major troubles, especially of lots of driving is required. If our rule for living is broken, we can never really measure out the way life is supposed to be lived. We work with the wrong scales for making judgments, and our life decisions will just be off. Watchman Nee saw the importance for having right standard of measure in doing Christianity well. In Sit, Walk, Stand, he wrote, If the life of a Christian is to be pleasing to God, it must be properly adjusted to him in all things. Too often we place the emphasis in our own lives upon the application of this principle to some single detail of our behavior or of our work for him. Often we fail, therefore, to appreciate either the extent of the adjustment called for or, at times even, the point from which it should begin.         But God measures everything, from start to finish, by the perfections...