The Health Benefits of Love

While the Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet demonstrated that love can be tragic and the tune Love Stinks by the J. Geils band demonstrates that love can hurt, it is vital to always remember all the immense things that love can accomplish for you. It's sound for your emotional and mental state, as well as your real physical being. Here are a few cases:

Forever Young

All things considered, perhaps not truly. Yet, the giving and getting of affection increases the hormone DHEA, otherwise called the "anti-aging" hormone. This hormone is discharged by the pituitary gland, and is demonstrated to enhance immune and neurological function. It

The Foundation of Wisdom and Knowledge–The Book of Revelation

The verse in our study is Revelation 1:17:

"And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me, 'Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last'" (NKJV).

At the time John received this revelation, he was the only one of the twelve still alive. Therefore, he had walked with the Lord Jesus more than any other apostle. The most intimate of the apostles with Jesus, John would lean his head up against the Lord's breast as they reclined for their last meal together. Even with this remarkable history, when John saw the Lord in His glory, he fell at His feet like a dead man!

      The Glorious Unfathomable Love of Christ

Ephesians 3:19And to know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge, that you might be filled with 
all the fullness of God

I. THE GLORIOUS FACT THAT CHRIST HAS LOVED US.
1. Christ loved His Church in eternity before time began.
2. Christ manifested His love to His people in assuming our nature and taking it in union with the Divine.
3. Christ manifested His love to His Church in the great humiliation which attended His appearance.
4. Christ now manifests His love in heaven

7 Sins of Uninformed Leaders

And How to Overcome Them

Leaders frequently succumb to the allurement to make every little thing about them. It is about their objectives, their ambition, their vocation, and their acknowledgment. They turn into a narrow minded pioneer.

Be that as it may, God has called us to be a different kind of leader. God has called us to be stewards of individuals. Also, instead of take from our group, He has called us to offer ourselves to our group. He has called us to be liberal leader. In any case, what does that look like?

Reflect The Glory Of The Lord

2 Corinthians 3:18

But we all with open face, We are not like Moses, who had a veil on his face; nor like the Jews, who have one on their hearts: "but we all"; not ministers and preachers of the Gospel only, but all believers, whether Jews or Gentiles, greater or lesser believers, who are enlightened by the Spirit of God, and are converted to Christ: "with open face"; which may regard the object beheld, the glory of Christ unveiled, that has no veil on it, as Moses had on his face, when he delivered the law; or the persons beholding, who are rid of Jewish darkness; the veil of the ceremonial law, and of natural darkness and blindness of mind; and so clearly and fully, comparatively speaking,

Love Motivated Warfare

Jesus knew this world was a realm under satanic siege. Planet Earth was not a place of peace but a realm at war. From the casting out of lucifer and his angels from Heaven, to the temptation in the Garden of Eden, to Babylon and the multiplication of nations under satanic influence, planet Earth has been an embattled world. The idea that somehow our era is less threatened by evil is the height of deception. We must fight if we will follow Christ into victory.

No matter how beautiful or even innocent the world around us seems at times, remember there was a serpent in Paradise itself. If Adam and Eve had possessed a war mode mentality, they never would have casually accepted the lies of

3 TIPS FOR GETTING WHAT YOU REALLY WANT

I have some powerful positive tips to share with you today that will help you to start getting what you truly want, quickly and easily :
    
Tip 1) Be Mindful. Mindfulness refers to focusing on the present moment and paying attention to what you’re doing at that moment. 

Too often we put ourselves on autopilot and let our minds run wild with what we just did, and what we’re about to do. From picking up the kids to mowing the lawn, we tend to live our lives in the past and future, without ever just focusing on the present. Being mindful allows you to begin to focus your attention in a very specific way that calms your mind, priming it to accept what the universe

The Pulpit Is Not a Magical Place, Even If 

Some People Think It Is

A young woman came into my office yesterday, terrified.

I don’t know much about her background. She spoke broken English with a thick accent that made communication difficult.

The object of her concern was a human figure, made out of wire, with a hangman’s noose wrapped around its neck. She had found this in her bed. She did not seem to know where it came from or why it was in her bed.

But in her mind it was voodoo. Since she had found it, she had experienced great fatigue, and she was scared. Convinced that the figure was both evil and

For God So Loved the World, Part 2

Message by John Piper, Scripture: John 3:14–18, Topic: The Love of God, Series: The Gospel of John.

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

Many people are new to Bethlehem. Some simply stop by to see what’s going on. Some have little or no experience with what we mean by preaching

For God So Loved the World, Part 1

Message by John Piper, Scripture: John 3:9–18, Topic: The Love of God, Series: The Gospel of John.

Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?” 10 Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things? 11 Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony. 12 If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? 13 No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. 16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.”

How You Can Remove the Mountain of Your Life

How many want to see their loved ones saved?
How many want to see your marriage restored or even get better?
How many want to see obstacles removed in their lives?
How many want to see miracles?
How many want to see healing in your body and others?
How many want to get your house in order?
How many want to see your finances get restored with even extra to give to the Lord?

-Then we need to know how Jesus would want us to prayer.
-There are always a lot of how-to questions on prayer

Love Requires Commitment

Love requires commitment, and commitment requires abandoning our exit strategies.

One of my favorite examples of removing any exit strategy comes from the prophet Elisha. The Old Testament book of 1 Kings chronicles Elisha’s extraordinary story. God called Elisha into a life of ministry, but Elisha wisely understood that embracing his calling would mean letting go of his current