“Love expects the best, doesn’t it? But if I learned anything from my mentor and friend, it was simply, ‘It’s better to give than to receive.’” We were excited! A major Christian publisher was publishing my first book. A Christian author had asked to write my story after hearing me speak at a conference. I had no idea at the time that I was going to be leaving my very comfortable corporate job. The publisher invited my wife and me to come to...

Fundamentally, the central purpose of the law was to drive us beyond it to Christ. By condemning us, the law exposes the impossibility of our ever living in perfect union with God so long as our relationship is filtered by our knowledge of good and evil. The law thereby prepares us to receive God’s judgment of our rebellious knowledge in Christ and opens us up to being reconciled with God in Jesus Christ. In his mercy, the all-holy God works...

Scripture repeatedly and emphatically commands us to live in love and to put love above and before all things. “And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.” Ephesians. 5:2, ESV “And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.” Colossians. 3:14, ESV It tells us that if we love, we will fulfill everything else the Lord requires of us, but if we...