Tag Archives: Christian love

Verse & Vision | August 19, 2026

John 13:34 gives a new command from Jesus: love one another. The standard is clear – as He has loved us, so we must love one another. This is the distinguishing mark of those who follow Him.

Verse & Vision | August 13, 2026

Matthew 5:43-44 calls us to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us. This radical teaching of Jesus challenges our natural instincts and invites us to respond with the same self-giving love He has shown us.

Verse & Vision | August 7, 2026

1 John 4:16 simply and powerfully declares that God is love. This is not merely a description of what God does, but a statement of who He is. To know God is to encounter this self-giving love, and to live in it is the evidence that we remain in Him.

Verse & Vision | June 12, 2026

We have made 1 Corinthians 13 into a wedding reading. Paul wrote it to people in a church fight. Not people in love — people in conflict, jockeying for status, eating communion bread while others went hungry. Every descriptor in verse 4 is a behavior, not a feeling. Patient. Kind. Not envious. Not boastful. Not proud. Five choices. None of them romantic. All of them available to you today, in the next conversation you have, with the next person who tests you. This is what love looks like when Christ is the source of it.