Just Because We Can Doesn’t Mean We Should
After months of waiting, the sun finally broke free from the night and the dreaded day arrived, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar. Yet God, in His amazing involvement in the story of Esther, had “turned the tables.” Though Haman’s evil plan...
Just Because We Can Doesn’t Mean We Should
After months of waiting, the sun finally broke free from the night and the dreaded day arrived, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar. Yet God, in His amazing involvement in the story of Esther, had “turned the tables.” Though Haman’s evil plan...
More Than A Christmas Story
If ever you’ve been around the church at Christmastime, you have more than likely heard Micah 5:2 read. It is a beautiful Messianic prophecy of the coming Savior who would be born in Bethlehem. Now, we know this promised Savior is Jesus Christ. It never fails to amaze...
The Song of God
The Song of Justice It’s fitting that Micah’s prophecy starts with the imperative to hear. When we read through this short book, we find God’s justice to be quite a loud endeavor. There’s a lot of wailing and weeping. We hear howling like a wild dog and screeching...
God’s Extraordinary Saving Grace
I have been writing for Love God Greatly for quite some time. It is amazing to me how privileged and blessed I am to be able to delve into the Scriptures, study different verses, and share the vulnerable pieces of my heart. In all these years, this is the first time...
Trusting in the Pit
The “pit” is a path that every child of God goes through either by our own mistakes or as a path God takes us through to refine our character and to fix our eyes wholeheartedly on Him. A child of God is tested and tempted in the “pit,” and it is a place where we truly...
God Knows Best
Jonah, Jonah, Jonah. The God of the universe, the Creator of heaven and earth, the omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, one true eternal God gave Jonah very specific instructions to go to Nineveh. And Jonah ran away. Think about that for a minute. It’s quite...
Refuge for the Day of Judgment
What emotions and thoughts come to mind when you think about God’s judgment? Maybe you are surrounded by immense suffering or the prosperity of the wicked, so your heart longs for God’s judgment to come upon the earth. Or maybe you are beaten down by your own...
Knowing Who God Is
I love the character of the Lord. I am so thankful that He has revealed His character to us by His Spirit, through His Word. May we never forget what a blessing it is to know the heart of God intimately and personally. He is my God, and He is your God. It is...
From the Nations: Strength in Community
Every Love God Greatly study highlights one of the languages we serve – our new study, Our God Who Pursues, includes the highlight of our Burmese branch!Join us in prayer for May, her team, and the women of her language and nation as you read her story, and help us...
Repentance and Restoration
What sin in your life has kept you from hearing God’s voice? To be completely honest, I didn’t want to write about a present sin struggle in my life. But as I sat here communing with God, I felt Him prompting me to write about the fear of man. Since I was a little...
Introduction to Our God Who Pursues
If we look around at our world today, we know that things are not how they’re supposed to be. It feels as if the culture around us continues to move further away from God. Evil seems to be thriving, and there is a lack of justice against sin. The people of Israel...
Our God Who Pursues Translations
Friends, our new study translations are ready! We have the incredible privilege of announcing that the Our God Who Pursues study is now available in SIXTEEN languages, with more in the works!!! And the Our God Who Pursues for Kids is available in SEVEN languages with...
Different Yet United
If you were to ask me what my most precious things in life are, then my local church would be in the top three of that list, and I truly do not take that for granted. I moved to Glasgow in 2016 with the plan to stay two years, but God brought me back to Scotland. Here...
Love God. Love People.
Love God and Love People. We see this saying a lot in the Christian world. We see it on t-shirts, tote bags, coffee mugs, and lots of other places. In the passages we read today, Matthew 22:34-40 and Mark 12:28-34, we see how to live out this saying. First, we have...
Daily Live for Christ
A teacher of mine always says this “prayers are twofold.” One is supplication, which is taking your requests before God, and the other is action. He said when we pray, God hears and moves to do that which we have asked Him for, especially when we pray prayers of...
Fight to Remember
As I age, I’m increasingly prone to forgetfulness. At times I walk up the stairs only to realize at the top that I don’t know why I went up them! To overcome this, I often repeat what I am looking for over and over again to remind myself what I am doing. ...
Highest Place of Authority
Authority: power to influence or command thought, opinion, or behavior (Merriam- Webster). Earthly Authority When you see or hear the word “authority” what’s the first thing that comes to your mind? For me, it’s my childhood and how my parents, especially my dad, were...
Standing in God’s Grace
God’s Revealed Word Praise God that His Word never fails but accomplishes the purpose for which it was sent. That purpose is to bring about our belief in Jesus (Isaiah 55:10-11; John 6:29). It is important to thank God for His Word, for it is a gift. Through it, He...
Restoration and Refreshment
I don’t know about you, but I am a type-A first born child who is also a former teacher. What does this mean? It means that I like to do things the right way the first time. I am an overachiever who holds myself to a high standard. So you can imagine the struggle it...
The Greatest Gift
The Perfect Gift Have you ever been given a gift that felt so personal and something only someone who knew you really well could give? Take a moment to think of a gift you’ve received like that. It could be as simple as a friend bringing you your favorite coffee from...
Life According to the Spirit
The Simple Gospel When I was seven years old, I heard the gospel clearly presented to me at a Vacation Bible School. The teacher explained that I was a sinner, and my sin separated me from our holy God. God, in His kindness, sent His Son to die on the cross for my...
Waiting Made Easier
I’ve never been a fan of cliff hangers in books and tv shows. I want to know what happens next, and I don’t want to wait a year or more for the next season to come out. All of this changed when streaming became available. Now, I fall into the trap of not having to...
A Sure and Certain Hope
What Is Certain We are living in uncertain days. It almost seems every time we connect to our news feeds, we hear of shocking, sad, almost unbelievable things happening across our world. There is an old saying that in this world there is nothing certain except death...
Jesus Changes Everything
Jesus’ Early Days Have you ever thought about what Jesus was like when He was younger? I assume that He was a lot like all of us. He had parents that raised Him. He crawled. He had to learn to walk and to talk. He went through puberty and adolescence. He had emotions....
God’s Divine Delivery
God with us. Emmanuel. Have you ever deeply pondered the savior’s birth? What a strange way God chose to save the world. By the grace of God, my husband and I have five children. Each of our five kids has a unique birth story. Some of them were born in foreign...