Love

Love Covers All Wrongs

Love covers all wrongs. That is the message of Proverbs 10:12, Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses. Love covers offenses. Love is not immune from being offended, but love seeks to cover over them when possible. To cover an offense is not to forget it or to pretend that it was somehow …

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Teaching Us To Love

God loves us, and shows us how to love him in return. I’m not a dispensationalist. There are several reasons why I am not a dispensationalist, but one of the primary reasons has to do with the way that the Old Testament Law is disconnected from grace in most popular dispensationalism. Christ was the fulfillment of …

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I Love You, But…

Peter tells us in 1 Peter 4:8, “Love covers a multitude of sins.” A multitude, that is a bunch, and I’m very grateful for all of the people who love me enough to overlook many of the sins in my life. I’m thankful for a Savior who loved me enough to “cover” my sins with …

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Loving Within The Church

Would Jesus visit with our churches and discover that our definition of healthy fits his definition of healthy?  We love, but do we love as God loves?  Jonathan Leeman says, “We assume not that God is love but that love is God.”  The church of Christ is a community where her members love each other …

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