receiving love from luke 19

All-loving God, we confess our motivations are often not influenced by your love. We act according to what will bring us the best outcome. We love ourselves before we love you. Help us to grow deeper ...

The strong bond that unites the vine and the branches has to do with the sap that flows through them. Jesus does not here use the word “sap,” but nonetheless gives a lengthy excursus on love in a way ...

There is the great lesson of “Beauty and the Beast”; that a thing must be loved before it is loveable.

He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.