(There are links below to previous Love Nuggets.)
In the last Nuggets, I mentioned God so desires that we would make right choices. But when we don’t, and end up with bad consequences, He looks past all our junk. He looks past it and He sees us as He made us: righteous, forgiven, and not separated from His love.
The reason we have God’s forgiveness
(There are links below to previous Love Nuggets.)
The Bible speaks very clearly about God’s love. God’s very nature is love. His love for you and me does not change. Nothing can ever separate us from the love of God.
So what about when we miss the mark or do something that is not right? God is just going to
(There are links below to previous Love Nuggets.)
I mentioned in an earlier “Nuggets,” that God’s very nature is love. The Bible says, God is love. The more we recognize how big God’s love really is, the easier it is to love others.
Our works and our worth have nothing to do with God loving us. God’s very nature is love. So again, the answer to why God loves you, is that
A few weeks ago someone said to me, “I’m not worried; the Universe will bring it to me.” I replied, “You mean, God?” He responded, “Oh yeah, God; that’s what I call Him sometimes.” I then answered, “Well, God created the universe, so He is definitely bigger than the universe!”
I’m not trying to be critical, but when it comes to God Almighty, the Creator, I like to recognize Him for Who He is. Isn’t it disrespectful to
(If you haven’t read the first Love Nuggets post, click here to read.)
In this second Love Nuggets post, more on God’s love toward us. As Christians, we are taught to love others. Sometimes that’s easy, sometimes it’s not so easy. Sometimes it is much easier to judge and condemn. But as I mentioned in the previous post, the more you understand and believe just how much God loves you and what He’s done for you, the easier it is to
Today is the 238th anniversary of the United States of America.
Two years ago I posted, “Was It A Coincidence?”
This year’s post is a link to that post from two years ago because there are some really great quotes from our Founding Fathers. Some of the words they spoke may even surprise you.
As the USA continues moving away from the godly principles it was founded upon, many of us continue to
Kathy and I were talking the other day about love, the love of God. We reminded ourselves of a verse in the Bible that says, “And now these three remain: faith [believing], hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” Love is greater than hope and believing!
A couple of hours after our chat, I decided
From one dad, to all dads!
Mike Verdicchio
2014
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Today is Pentecost!
Many Christians do not know or understand the great significance of remembering and celebrating the Day of Pentecost recorded in Acts 2. Few calendars even note this day.
Could Pentecost be of even greater importance and significance than the birth of Christ? Below are excerpts from a post I did 4 years ago, called, The Lost Message of Pentecost.
The Lost Message of Pentecost
When it comes to Pentecost, what exactly do we celebrate?
It’s common today to hear phrases like, “a higher power,” “Guardian spirit,” or, “a higher being.” Those kind of terms generally refer to non-human life forms believed to have power over human life. I heard one of those phrases the other day.
It reminded me of a brochure a friend gave me that he picked up at a chiropractor’s office several years ago. He thought I would find it interesting, and I did.
The brochure was about having a positive mental attitude. I’m certainly in favor of that, aren’t you? I read through it and found a lot of great points and some really good suggestions. In fact, a number of the principles in the brochure could be easily documented from the Bible.
Huh?
But there was one part of the brochure I didn’t much care for. The topic was, “Believe in a Higher Being.” The paragraph was pretty vague and ended by encouraging people to “get in touch with their spirituality.”
It seems rather odd to me that if you are trying to believe in a “Higher Being,” that would mean something spiritual that is outside of your human self. You do that by getting in touch with your own spirituality?
The brochure did not offer any help in getting in touch with one’s spirituality. Would that be anything like a guy getting in touch with his “feminine side?” I’m not trying to sound critical, but since we are humans, our spirituality is something based on knowledge and our interaction with a spirit being. Obviously God is a spirit; I get that.
But God Almighty, the Creator of the heavens and the earth is not the only spirit being around. There are people whose spirituality is based on interactions with what the Bible calls “deceiving spirits.” For me, “believe in a higher being,” needs a little more clarification.
3 Cheers For The Creator!
Speaking of the Creator, there sure is plenty of obvious evidence that God created this world. Just look at the human body and how magnificent it is. Someone way smarter than any of us built and designed human beings.
The Bible is clear there are two great spiritual entities. On one side is the Creator, the One True God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. On the other is Satan, called by a number of names in the Bible, including the “god of this world.” Even without an understanding of the Bible, isn’t it obvious in our world there are evil forces at work, as well as good?
The Bible declares just how good and magnificent the One True God is, and how horribly bad and evil the devil is. Jesus engaged the Pharisees in a pretty intense verbal exchange about this. Coming soon, I’ll have a podcast on this blog recapping that stinging debate.
Maybe, for brochures, so as to not offend, some think it’s better to say, “Believe in a Higher Being,” than to say, “Believe in God.” But, on the other hand, it seems to me that “Believe in God,” is a broad enough statement that encourages those who do believe in the One True God, and probably wouldn’t offend those that don’t.
Mike Verdicchio
2014
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