Crucified Life

October 28, 2019 Sue Love Christian Devotional crucified life, death to sin, God, Jesus Christ, Salvation, self-sacrificial

“I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” Gal. 2:20 ESV This is a passage of scripture that … Continue reading Crucified Life

Easy Believism

October 28, 2019October 28, 2019 Sue Love Christian Devotional American Christians, belief, cheap grace gospel, Christian persecution, easy believism, gospel of grace, Jesus as Lord, profession of faith, Salvation

“…because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.” Rom. 10:9-10 ESV I believe this passage of scripture in … Continue reading Easy Believism

Man-Made Faith

October 27, 2019October 27, 2019 Sue Love Christian Devotional faith in Christ, God's righeousness, hypocrisy, license to sin, Man-made religion, pride, salvation from sin, self-righteous

Romans 10:1-4 ESV Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to … Continue reading Man-Made Faith

Saved by Grace through Faith

October 27, 2019October 27, 2019 Sue Love Christian Devotional Christianity; Devotional, God, God's grace, Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, our faith, Salvation, topical Bible study

“For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.” Eph. 2:8-9 ESV This passage of scripture is a foundational scripture to the Christian faith, but it is probably the most widely … Continue reading Saved by Grace through Faith

Question for you

October 27, 2019October 27, 2019 Sue Love Personal Bible, blogging, book studies, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, question, topical studies

I have a question I want to ask all my readers, but first let me preface it with this. When the Lord Jesus called me 15 years ago to write down what he was teaching me from his Word and to put it on the internet, I was reading in the Bible book by book, … Continue reading Question for you

What’s Our Part?

October 26, 2019October 26, 2019 Sue Love Christian Devotional disobedience, eternal rest, falling short, God's grace, strength in the Lord, submission to Christ, sympathy, weakness

Hebrews 4:1-2 ESV (Read vv. 1-10) Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united … Continue reading What’s Our Part?

It’s Sad!

October 26, 2019October 26, 2019 Sue Love poetry addiction, emptiness, just existing, lack of direction, lack of purpose, routine, sadness, self-consumed, self-pleasure

An Original Work / October 26, 2019 It’s sad, you know, Watching someone you love Wandering so, Seeming to go nowhere. Each day’s no Different from the other. It’s the same old, same old Day after day after day. No purpose or direction Seems to be found. Just existing, Putting in their time. Sleep, awake, … Continue reading It’s Sad!

Lovers of Self

October 26, 2019October 25, 2019 Sue Love Christian Devotional beloved of God, followers of Christ, self-consumed, self-pleasure, Spirit-controlled

2 Timothy 3:1-5 ESV But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather … Continue reading Lovers of Self

The Senses

October 25, 2019 Sue Love poetry Bible, God, hearing, Jesus Christ, poetry, sight, smell, taste, The senses, touch

An Original Work / October 25, 2019 What’s that you hear? Whispers in the darkness, Rumors flying everywhere, Truth not to be found. What’s your response? Listen with attention? Engaging yourself in it? Or, do you walk away? What’s that you see? Sexual innuendos So loaded with perversion, Purity not found. Do you give answer? … Continue reading The Senses

Don’t Be Stupid!

October 25, 2019October 25, 2019 Sue Love Christian Devotional Bible, Christianity, Encouragement, foolishness, God, Holy Spirit filling, intoxication, Jesus Christ, spiritual songs

Recap: In Ephesians 4 we learned that faith in Jesus Christ is leaving our old lives of sin behind us to follow our Lord Jesus in obedience to his will and to his ways. And, then we had some very practical teaching on what that looks like in everyday life. We have to stop lying, … Continue reading Don’t Be Stupid!

Run With It

So that a herald may run with it