Devotionals about Love & Relationships
Love is messier and more costly than the Hallmark version. The devotionals below look at marriage, family, friendship, and the hard love of Jesus — and what it takes to love real people with real grace instead of loving an idea of them.
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294 devotionals in Love & Relationships
- Restoration
Infinite Possibilities in Christ Despite Our Mistakes
Listen, I’ve been rambling on for the past week about our bad habits and how God can remove them from us and restore us. So check this out;“Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I...
- Forgiveness
Choose Love Over Vengeance
Watching the news, scrolling through social media or just taking an watchful eye on what goes on around us, I can’t help but notice that it seems like everyone is out for vengeance. It’s ridiculous honestly. We have talked repeatedly about forgiveness and it’s a HUGE topic with me as it is the es...
- Friendship
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
I bet you wouldn’t think I would write about Neil Diamond would you? Well, I am...sort of. Stay with me here;I believe that the Lord Jesus wants me to encourage you to look after your friendships and not neglect them, nor take them for granted!We need each other, especially in these turbulent tim...
- Forgiveness
The Power of Forgiveness and Reconciliation
You ever think about how powerful Jesus is and His command for us forgive, as God has, those who have hurt us? I mean think about this, with that one selfless action, He becomes the great restorer. Pretty awesome I think. “"If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you...
- Greed
Money vs. God: The Danger of Divided Hearts
So, I want to keep on track this week about some of the things that in many ways separate us from our relationship with God. The pursuit of “more” is definitely one of those things...“He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity...
- Fear
Perfect Love Casts Out Fear
I’m sure I’m like the rest of us when I say I’m bad about fear and worry. No matter how much I KNOW my life is in Gods hands and he always provides, I still get caught in worry. When that happens, I think we are not necessarily driving God away, but we are certainly keeping him at bay. “There is...
- Church
We Are Better Together in Christian Community
So, there is an old country song by Don Williams called, I believe in Love. There is a line in the song that says, “I don’t believe that Heaven waits for only those who congregate...”. I’ve liked this song for 40 years and it’s on my mind today because we’ve been talking about God’s love and lovi...
- Love
Love God Passionately, Love People Selflessly
Following Jesus truly comes down to two things: Love God passionately, and love people selflessly! 🎤👋Our world we live in is starved for love! Not the fake, strings attached kind of love, but the real kind of love that only comes from God. That’s the kind we get from a relationship with God tha...
- Gods Love
God Stands at the Door and Knocks
“Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.”Revelation 3:20 One of the most powerful things you need to understand as you Follow Jesus is how much God loves you, He isn't interested in some religious...
- Salvation
The Ultimate Promise: God's Love in John 3:16
“"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”John 3:16 So this morning’s verse on my phone popped up and it was John 3:16. We see it everywhere, it’s been commercialized, advertised and immortalized by famous athlet...
- Suffering
When We Get Angry with God
Why do we sometimes get frustrated or angry with God? Let’s face it, we all do it. We lose a job promotion, a race didn’t go our way, we experience a death in the family, personal injury or financial hardships. This list is long...we all have them. Life’s hard. "God, why did you let that happen?"...
- Gods Knowledge
God Knows You and Loves You Without End
God knows you, he made you. So who are trying to kid? Why are we trying to hide from God? He can read our mind... “You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.”Psalms 139:2 He knows how great our imperfections and failings are, and it was for just such a person...
- Forgiveness
Forgiven People Should Be Forgiving People
So, one of you awesome people posted to social media today and said, “Forgiven people should be forgiving people”! Yes!You see, God gave us forgiveness and redemption through His son Jesus, why would we not deliver the same thing to those who hurt us? What makes His forgiveness unconditional and...
- Gods Love
You Don't Deserve It, But God Gives It Anyway
I don’t know about you, but I get the “I don’t deserve this...” feeling a lot when I think about what God has done for me and my life. His salvation alone can be bewildering at times. It’s the opinion we have about ourselves and our past or present. You see, we have one set of convictions about o...
- Spiritual Longing
That Feeling Like There's Something More
You ever get that feeling like there is something more? That you are chasing something in life that won’t fully satisfy you? I have. Pay close attention to that feeling though, it’s from God. We see people everyday who seem to be “put together”. People that have a lot of seat time in church and m...
- Faith
Overcoming Fear Through Faith and Fellowship
We’ve talked about having Faith for the past couple of days now and I’d like to close the week by wrapping up how we exercise that Faith in overcoming our troubles and fears through fellowship with others. When was the last time you shared your fears and struggles with a close friends? You see, w...
- Faith Vs Belief
Faith Beyond Belief
So I made the comment yesterday that, “Believing is not Faith”. I’m confident of this and I believe that, while related, they are drastically different. Faith is not believing in God’s goodness only when we are out of the storm; faith is believing in God’s goodness right in the middle of it. The...
- Grace
God's Grace: Learning to Love Through the Mess
We are wrapping up 2018 and I am just thrilled at how this little devotional has gone. We’ve spent a lot of time talking about loving others and forgiving others, but we should never forget to love ourselves. Once we get ahold of the truth of grace, not only does it empower us to forgive and love...
- Forgiveness
Forgiveness: Losing Count, Not Keeping Score
So, I hope all of you had a wonderful Christmas and got a chance to spend it with family and friends. I sure did. The down time (and hundreds of Merry Christmas texts) got me thinking about friends I’ve seen and those I haven’t in a long time. I started thinking about the “why” behind the absence...
- Christmas
Immanuel: God With Us at Christmas
It’s Christmas Eve and by now, us guys, we should be getting started on the Christmas Shopping! But seriously, Christmas is a great time for family, giving and sharing the “Christmas Spirit”! But are we stopping to soak in what Christmas is all about? I mean, we all know that it is a celebration...
- Integrity
Be the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are
12/120/18So, a day or so ago I was writing about integrity and what it means, how we get it, etc...Well, as I’m studying and thinking about the topic of integrity again, my sweet puppy Emma is laying on my leg. She goes everywhere with me and is just so full of love. I would love to love uncondit...
- Spiritual Growth
More Than a Spiritual Rinse: Deep Faith Requires Work
So, as I was washing my Motocross bike on Sunday, for some reason, I reminded myself of a saying I heard somewhere along the way that said, “it’s not clean until a rags hit it”. Got me thinking that this simple task of cleaning my bike could be a metaphor for our relationship with Christ. You see...
- Friendship
The Ministry of Presence in Times of Grief
“"He who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.”Job 6:14 In the Bible we are told that during Job’s time of grieving, his three friends came to mourn with him and to comfort him. For the first 7 days they sat and wept with him because he was in deep sorrow (Job 2:11-1...
- Humility
Following Jesus: Less of Me, More of Him
“Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.”Philippians 2:3-4 What are we doing here? What is reading the Bible, prayer, and Christianity all a...
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