If we are unmerciful, unforgiving people, if we hold grudges or cherish resentments or plan revenge, then what we are saying in effect to God is, "This is the way I prefer life to be." And so he will give us what we have preferred at the day of judgment; no mercy, no forgiveness, but only vengeance. If Christ has not changed us (and I don't mean perfection, but only significant change), then probably we have never known him.

Freedom flows forth in love just as surely as a bubbling spring flows forth in a mountain stream.

Hate is the evidence of blindness to the light of God. Love is the evidence that sight has been given to the blind.

The evidence of being indwelt by the Spirit of God is the experience of loving Jesus the way the Father loves him.

Christian kindness is not merely an external change of manners; it is an internal change of heart.

Serving and loving and helping and encouraging and supporting the saints is the way we show our love for the name of God.

God is love. The implications of this for the way we live are big.

How does Christ's love for us turn into our love for others?

All of Scripture hangs on two great purposes: that God be loved with all our heart, and that we love each other as we love ourselves.

Loving God sustains us through all the joy and pain and perplexity and uncertainty of what loving our neighbor should be.

Becoming a child of God and being transformed on the inside precedes and enables love, not vice versa.

Jesus is calling us not just to do good things for our enemy; he is also calling us to WANT their best.

God intends for us not merely to do to others as we would have them do to us, but he wants us to feel toward other believers a certain way.

Is there something in your life that is hindering your fruitfulness in Christ—something that you need to die to?

We simply cannot love the way Paul describes until we die.

If we are true Christians we will want to show mercy to suffering people.

You can be a liberal hypocrite, and you can be fundamentalist hypocrite. But love is not that way.

Don’t be a loner in the Christian life. God did not design it that way.

What can we learn from how Paul sends his greetings?

Christians are precious to each other when they feel deeply what they have been saved from.

4 examples from Philippians 2 of people who put others' interests before their own.

What's new about Jesus' new commandment?