Spiritual Growth Love

Reconocer la sabiduría del amor en cada uno de nosotros es un modo de aceptar la realidad divina que nos constituye. Todos somos sabios a nuestro modo y dentro del saber del amor es donde conocemos nuestra esencia. Nadie nos puede responder a la pregunta de qué somos, salvo nuestro corazón por medio de la sabiduría que habita en él. Esa sabiduría no procede del mundo sino del cielo.

There's no better feeling than knowing you are loved, yet many of us struggle to accept God's abundant, unconditional love for us. 100 Things God Loves About You includes 100 Bible verses and reflections about how high, how deep, and how wide God's love is for each of His children.

In this six-session Bible study, Karen Ehman helps you rediscover the life-changing joy that comes from putting others first. In a culture that tells us a me-first, you-second way of living is the key to happiness, Ehman explains that the key to moving forward in almost every facet of your life is to embrace backward living. Listen, Love, Repeat gives you both the encouragement and practical, daily ways you can reach out to others with both planned and random acts of kindness.

Every Christian cherishes the famous passage in Galatians 5:22-23 that lists the fruit of the Spirit—love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. These are the marks of godly character that we strive to display. But has it ever occurred to you that these are also the characteristics of God? Can it be that God loves us with the fruit of the Spirit? And only when we are secure in that love can we display it to others? Jessica Thompson wants to take you deeper into the love that your Heavenly Father has for you.

In what is now his second published book, author D.L. Williams shares the theological journey of his personal revelation of love that is so clear and well-defined, it indeed has the power to transform the heart of each and every person who listens to it. Beginning with God and his love for us, we take a journey of what love is, how the divine (God) loves humanity with a perfect love, what it means that God loves us, and how the blueprint of his love should permeate our lives.

Little Love Letters to God are sweet little love notes and poems dedicated to God to show how much we appreciate his presence in our lives. Little Love Letters to God is a set of short stories, poems, Bible verses, and spiritual affirmations that could be listened to daily or at any time to usher in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Does the local church today recognize its place as the beloved bride of Christ? In this audiobook, Dustin Benge invites believers who have underestimated or become disillusioned by the church to rediscover its beauty and glory. Exploring biblical qualities including the Trinitarian relationship, selfless service, and gospel proclamation, he awakens the affections of Christ's followers for their local church home.

Lenaburg desperately wanted to be part of a girl tribe in middle school. She wanted to belong, to have friends—to be seen. So the unathletic, gangly sixth-grader tried out for the cheerleading squad. She didn’t have fancy clothes like the other girls, and she noticed that everyone else had “a chest”. So Lenaburg stuffed a pair of her brother’s sweat socks into her bra. You can probably guess the rest: One sock fell out when she started a tumbling routine.

When we say we have faith in people or material things, it’s because they have proved themselves in the past and we expect them to do the same in the future. But that’s not faith. It’s belief.

The Journey is an interactive Bible study that will guide you, the pioneer, through a journey that will lead you into exploring, discovering, and experiencing God, the one who is love. Andrea guides you through a path where she’s discovered amazing treasures that have profoundly changed her life, while guiding you into making discoveries on your own. Along the way, she shares secrets that she discovered on her journey that have brought the Bible to life, allowing her to know God more intimately, discover the beauty of who he is, and find treasures that have empowered her....

Mike reviews the meaning and purpose of these Christian virtues, as well as the relationship each has with the other.

Each of us is given a unique gift from God. But, unfortunately, we never give thought to this until we are faced with trials and tribulations. These can often tell the story of our character. We can be seen to be weak or strong depending on our reaction as to how we handle these matters. Given the vision to share how the acronym of the word ACHIEVE can be used systematically in your day-to-day life to refocus your belief on achieving your goals.

Lysa TerKeurst, autora best seller del New York Times, ayuda a los lectores a detener la disfunción de las relaciones no saludables al mostrar formas bíblicas de establecer límites y, cuando sea necesario, decir adiós, sin perder lo mejor de quienes son.

The Bible tells a story—and it may be one you haven't considered. It is the story of God and humans in an unexpected relationship of faithfulness and love. It's about people who fail and about the God who pursues them with his unrelenting covenant love. And it concludes with a miracle plot twist so astonishing, it changes everything.

The world is changing, along with our ideas around sexuality, authority, patriarchy, and truth. Despite the Church's best attempts at downplaying the changes, millions of intellectually honest people are entering into a process often referred to as deconstruction. In The Reconstructionist, pastor, and author Jonathan Foster offers up his own deconstruction story, how it stirred up the fear of his denomination, his subsequent expulsion, and how the insights gleaned might just point a way forward. It's based on three simple ideas: people > text, mercy > sacrifice, and love > fear.

Over twenty years later, Dee was still in love with her charming Southern gentleman when he passed away suddenly in 2007. Determined to carry on Johnnie’s work, Dee earned her mortuary science degree, only to find herself no longer needed in the family business. So Dee crossed the racial divide in the most segregated industry in America and joined the staff of an African-American funeral home as a single white woman. In The Undertaker’s Wife, Oliver draws from her experience to provide candid advice on dying well and surviving the loss of those who have gone before.

What is life? What are we here for? What is truly important? What will bring authentic satisfaction and lasting happiness? We all ask these questions, and we all have a right to come to our own conclusions. In this follow-up to his New York Times and USA Today bestseller Jesus Is ____, Judah completes this sentence as to what “life is,” revealing how it is to be loved and to love, to enjoy God to the fullest, to trust God in every moment, and to be at peace with God, others, and ourselves.

Jesus commands us to love our neighbors. So why are so many Christians taught to fear their neighbors? The American church is known as a people who are afraid, who have been nurtured through fear into hatred, and who have moved from hatred to violence - or at least to neglect. This fear, too often lived out boldly in the name of Jesus, is a false religion.

Which year of your life was the most impactful so far? One year of my life, God spoke to me in a way I would never experience again. The things I heard and see manifest would forever change my life.

To the world around us, this kind of unconditional love makes little sense. The world is really good at loving some people, sometimes. Most of us are. But what about loving people who don't talk like us, think like us, vote like us, or see the world like we do? In this five-session audio Bible study, Bob points the way to embodying love by doing the unexpected, the intimidating, the seemingly impossible—to love everybody the way Jesus loved them—without fear, insecurity, or reservations.