Is Your Love All Talk?
“Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.” 1 John 3:18 (NIV) It is easy to love the idea of love. You can talk about agapē, study it, post about it, and…
Rodney Garcia
This Love Will Cost You Everything
“Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” John 15:13 (NIV) Nobody warns you how expensive agapē really is. You can admire it from a distance, sing about it on Sunday, and nod…
Love the One Who Wrecked You
“Follow the way of love and eagerly desire gifts of the Spirit, especially prophecy.” 1 Corinthians 14:1 (NIV) There is someone in your life you have written off. Maybe they betrayed your trust, walked away without explanation, or caused damage…
You Didn’t Start This Fire
“But the greatest of these is love.” 1 Corinthians 13:13b (NIV) You were never meant to generate this love on your own. Many believers carry a quiet exhaustion, trying harder to be more patient, more kind, more giving. But agapē…
What’s Left When Everything Fades
“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” 1 Corinthians 13:13 (NIV) Most people are building lives that won’t survive eternity. They pour their best years into careers, possessions, and reputations that…
The Life That Is Truly Life
“Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share. In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they…
What Remains When You See Him
“For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.” 1 Corinthians 13:12 (NIV) One day…
Growing Up in What Matters
“When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.” 1 Corinthians 13:11 (NIV) Spiritual maturity changes…
What Are You Building That Won’t Burn?
“If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the…
The One Thing Death Can’t Touch
“Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.” 1 Corinthians 13:8 (NIV) Death takes everything except one thing. Your house, your…