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#LOVEWINS: Are You Sure?

March 17, 2017 by Edwin Crozier Leave a Comment

#LOVEWINS

If there is anything we assume in our modern day, it is #LOVEWINS. It has become a mantra for everything. But have you ever stopped to ask why we believe this today? I’m not asking have you ever stopped to ask why we should believe this? That is a good question, but a different one. Have you ever stopped to ask why that statement has even made its way into modern consciousness and is even meaningful to us? Keep reading to consider the profound answer and some powerful implications for us.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, God's Love, Love Tagged With: #LOVEWINS, Atheism, Buddhism, Christianity, darwinism, evolution, Hindu, Love, new age, pantheism, power, strength, theism

A Picture of God’s Grace

September 4, 2012 by Edwin Crozier 7 Comments

What does God’s grace look like? Consider Matthew 14:28-31.

And Peter answered him, ‘Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.’ He said, ‘Come.’ So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, ‘Lord, save me.’ Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, ‘O you of little faith, why did you doubt?’

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Filed Under: Christian living, Church Growth, God's Love, God's Way for Our Lives, Grace, Growth, Jesus, Making Mistakes, Overcoming Sin, Personal Responsibility, relying on God, Spiritual Growth, surrender, Victory in God Tagged With: a picture of grace, command, faith, grace, Jesus, law, miracle, obedience, Peter, Peter walking on water

Three Views of God

August 9, 2011 by Edwin Crozier Leave a Comment

What is your image of God? I don’t mean what is your Bible class answer to the question about who God is. I mean in those moments when your subconscious is guiding your actions and reactions to what is going on around you, what is your image of God? How does He behave? How does He treat you? If you’re like me, it is not always a great image.

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Filed Under: Christian living, God's Love, God's Way for Our Lives, Grace Tagged With: faith, God, God's Love, grace, perseverance, salvation

The 10 Ways Forgiving Yourself Impacts Your Life

April 7, 2011 by Edwin Crozier 8 Comments

I received a heart-rending letter this week from a brother who is suffering the earthly consequences of his heinous sins. He had heard a sermon I preached entitled “We are Allowed to Love Ourselves.” You may remember the series on this very topic that I wrote on this blog. The brother wanted to know how he could ever forgive himself. Having committed some heinous sins myself, I want to know the same thing. What does it mean to forgive ourselves? Should we forgive ourselves? How can we?

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Filed Under: Being human, Change, Christian living, Forgiveness, God's Love, God's Way for Our Lives, Grace, Growth, Honesty, Judgment, Love, Loving Ourselves, Making Mistakes, Overcoming Sin, Spiritual Growth Tagged With: Forgiveness, forgiving ourselves, forgiving yourself, God's Love, loving ourselves, loving yourself, sin

Another Reason I Love God

March 24, 2011 by Edwin Crozier 4 Comments

I was humbled last night. I don’t know whether to make this post a family post because it had to do with my relationship with my kids or to make it about our individual spiritual lives because it taught me about my relationship with God. I’ll just tell you the story and let you draw your own conclusions.

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Filed Under: Disciplining Children, Fathers, Forgiveness, God's Love, God's Way for Our Family, God's Way for Our Lives, Grace, Growth, Love, Making Mistakes, My Family, parenting, Raising Boys, Raising Kids, Relationships Tagged With: boys, Disciplining Children, God is my Father, God's Love, parenting, patience, Raising Kids

Believe and Hope All Things–Love Yourself

January 10, 2011 by Edwin Crozier 1 Comment

(If you’ve stumbled across this post, let me explain where you are. You have landed smack in the middle of one of my favorite series ever. We started some time ago by learning that God expects us to love ourselves. Now, we’re going through the definition of love in I Corinthians 13:4-7 to help us understand how we can love ourselves in a healthy way so can love others better. Go back to that first post to read the series from the beginning and to find an index of all the posts available. Enjoy today’s post as well.)

Believe and Hope All Things

When we live in fear and self-hatred, the future looks dim and dark. We look ahead and see nothing but dismal failure. Why would anything good happen to us? We are pathetic and pitiful. We don’t love ourselves, we can’t imagine that anyone else could, even God. So why would good things ever happen to us. We can begin to rewrite even the blessings of the past to imagine that God has completely abandoned us. How much worse will this be if, as happens in life, some bad things really have happened to us. I can’t help but think of Job here. In the midst of his suffering, he couldn’t imagine a bright future at all.

In this state, we are certain that we are worthy of nothing good. Why then would God allow something good to happen to us or for us?Why would anyone else bestow much good on us? Why should we even seek anything good? We begin to catastrophize and awfullize our future. We play a video tape in our head that says everything is going to be bad. The very sad part about this is when we believe this, we live like it, and most often we cause the very things we fear.

As we wrap up this look at healthy love, we need to understand that God does love us. We are allowed to love ourselves. We are allowed to believe all things and hope all things. We are allowed to believe in our own worth. After all, God believes we are valuable. He thinks we are so important He has numbered our hairs. Not a single hair falls out that God doesn’t notice (cf. Luke 12:6-7). If God thinks we are that valuable, we can rest our own sense of worth in our relationship with Him.

We can look to the future and see good things. Matthew 7:7-11 explains that God does in fact want to bless us with good gifts. He refuses to give us serpents and stones. He wants to give us fish and bread. He wants us to have His great blessings. No, this doesn’t mean nothing we deem bad will ever happen to us. But it does mean that we know God will carry us through it all and use it all to bring us out on the other side. We know that because we love God and He loves us, He will use all things to bring about our ultimate good (Romans 8:28-30). We don’t have to view the “bad” things that happen to us as our lot in life or the limit of our coming experiences. Rather, we can see them as stepping stones that God will use to accomplish our own glorification.

You are God’s beloved child. He loves you. Love yourself. Then love others. Believe that good is coming. Hope for the best. Then pursue it by the grace of God who loves you.

God loves you. I love you. Why not let you love you.

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I hope this series has been a blessing in your life. If so, please make sure to share it with others. Click one of the links in the “Share and Enjoy” section below to pass it on to your friends.

If you read this post and found it helpful, make sure to check out the whole series. You can start here.

Filed Under: God's Love, God's Way for Our Lives, Love, Loving Ourselves Tagged With: God's Love, Love, love yourselves, loving others, loving ourselves, loving self, optimisim

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