God's Desire for Us

God loves us and delights in us, and so he wishes us to love him and delight in him and trust greatly in him.

Knowing God--Loving God

Let us give our thoughts completely to knowing God. The more one knows him, the more one wants to know him, and since love is measured commonly by knowledge, ...

The Two Important Relationships

First the Ten Commandments, then Jesus, make it very clear that there are two kinds of important relationships for human beings. One is a relationship ...

Prayer on the Farm

Living on the farm, as my grandfather did, enabled him to choose a different way of life and to live by his own light. And his light certainly was the ...

Love Is Not Luv

Love should cast out terror, but not awe. True love must include awe. This is one of the great truths about sex and marriage that our age has tragically ...

Called to Love

Our calling and purpose as followers of Christ is to love God completely, to love self correctly, and to love others compassionately.

Luther on the Ten Commandments

The First Commandment: Thou shalt have no other gods before me. What does this mean? Answer: We should fear, love, and trust in God above all things.

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Love and Fear

No one loves the man whom he fears.

Two Sides of the Same Coin

My relationship with God is part of my relationship with men. Failure in one will cause failure with the other.