Each course module/week (except Module/Week 1) begins on Tuesday morning at 12:00 a.m. (ET) and ends on Monday night at 11:59 p.m. (ET). The final module/week ends at 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Friday.…
The Bible teaches us that God created us for his glory and that his love for us was so great, that he wanted us to enjoy his many…
"Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations." (Deuteronomy 7:9, English Standard Version) Here God is described as a faithful God, and one who will always love those that love him, and follow his word. This is such a powerful verse and really speaks to the faithfullness of God to his people, here it shows that God is obligated to us, that he must love those that love him. I think it also shows that he is bound to look out for us because he is our "faithful" creator, and that as the creator he is obligated to look out for us, to satisfy us, and provide for us, and ultimately look out for us enough so that we may seek him out and follow him with out Faith. That creation of the Covenant is the ultimate example of God's faithfullness to us as it takes out all mystery and makes things most certain for us, and shows his commitment to us as a people, because of the covenant we know all the cornerstones of His divine government. The many 'I wills' in Deuteronomy cover everything that we as a people might need in both the past, present, and future. There is no avenue of life that we can venture to where we can not find God, and he has given us clear definition of His heart and intentions by his word and covenant. God's love in Deuteronomy can…
He created woman for man and intended them to live as one flesh, joined together, and leave their mother and father to be their own family. Some suggest that God had some unfinished business in between verses 1 and 2 before he could finish his great works. The Spirit is represented as God’s helper or agent.…
Cruciform love: conforming to the voluntary self-giving and self-emptying regard for others (Rom 3:25; 4: 25; 5:6-11; 8:3, 17, 32; 15:3).…
Deuteronomy 10:12-22 speaks explicitly of some affections, namely Love and Fear but there are others that are implied through the actions we are to do. We see that out of love for God and a fear of God we are to keep his commandments, serving him and to be holy. Later on in the text though we see that God also calls us to love strangers, which is an act of compassion. He also calls us to worship and praise him which flow from gratitude for what God has done for…
In part one of Jesus and Community Lohfink develops the notion of Israel being God’s intended display-community that Jesus came to gather and restore to their original mission. He sees the choosing of The Twelve and their being sent to all of Israel as a “symbolic prophetic action” denoting Israel’s opportunity to become that community. In part two Lohfink notes a supposed shift in Jesus’ latter ministry from the unresponsive Israel, to the formation of a new community of brothers and sisters through his disciples, “representing symbolically what really should have taken place in Israel as a whole”. He expounds on the qualities of this new family with God as their only Father that gives up everything joyfully to be salt and light to the world. Part three explores how the New Testament communities…
At the center of a lot of different religions, there is love. Even though many of those religions have different definitions and meanings of love, it has always been a universal concept that is very easy to grasp. Winthrop gives great conclusions of love. “Love is a real thing, not imaginary.” This is obvious because like many natural characteristics, love is a part of our human nature. We love even without realizing it. He goes on to tell us that love is necessary in being apart of Christianity. Christianity is about loving others as Christ loves us. How can you be of the Christian religion and not love? Winthrop then goes on to tell us the characteristics of love; how it is divine, free, active, strong, courageous etc. He tells us that the scripture tells us that the love of the God of Christianity is ultimately satisfying.…
He loved and took care of them. He gave them full comfort to live, and hopefully, man lived happily. God made man from the dust and breathed life into man. Man made from mud means that man is subject to weakness and fragility because of his body. However, God created man in His own image (CCC 356). God shared to the human being His own life, which is the initial gift that God has given to mankind (CCC 358). In addition, God created mankind male and female. These are two independent humans but the same one bone and flesh. They belong together and complement each other. They are called to uplift and love one another. They were invited to look at what God created. God invited human being to participate in the mastery of the creatures of God by giving him the right to name all things around them and to participate in his power of dominion. This mastery is also an invitation for man being to master his own life as a gift from God (CCC 369, 371).…
Matt PRIEST: a reading from the first letter of john: beloved, let us love one another, because love is god; everyone who loves is begotten by god and knows God. Whoever is without love does not know God. Please join your hands together and let’s begin. Kieran will you repeat after me.…
When God created mankind in Genesis 2 he created both man and woman to be together in marriage, which is seen in Genesis 4 when Adam and Eve had gotten married. God knew that the relationship between a male and a female was going to be crucial because without a man and woman getting married there would be no other way to reproduce. God was very much aware that earthly human relationships outside of the a persons relationship with Christ was going to vital in order for a person to live out their everyday life. In Genesis 2 God first created Adam from the dust (Genesis 2:7) and later he created Eve out of Adams rib (Genesis 2:22) and they both were to live together in the garden of Eden. Genesis 4 discusses how Adam and Eve had gotten married and Eve gave birth to their two sons Cain and Abel. However since sin had entered into the world in Genesis…
Dr. Bernard Brady describes how humans should express true love in Be Good and Do Good when he writes, “But what ought our love ‘look’ like? Within the broader context of the Bible and tradition, we can say a Christian ought to love, within the human condition, as God loves or more appropriately, how we experience God” (Brady, p. 102). Love can be an abstract topic, especially in term of God’s love; however, Brady emphasizes love using five basic characteristics making the abstract more concrete. Thus, Brady lists the following as being attributes of God’s love that humans can duplicate: “[Love] is affective (with emotions), affirming, responsive, unifying, and steadfast” (Brady, p. 102).…
The Excellence of Love (1 Corinthians 13)1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.…
Growing up going to Church gave me a good outline for what love is supposed to look like. This outline is continuously being shaped and filled in as I begin to understand the biblical meaning of love. Recently, have I noticed how difficult a concept love is to grasp. To begin a discussion on love first requires acknowledging that God is the creator of Love. God’s love is continuously on display throughout scripture and history. Secondly, God is love God and love has a purpose in our lives. Holmes, the author of, The Company We Keep discusses the purpose of love and calls us to knowingly commit ourselves to God’s purpose for love within our community. The Company We Keep, states love serves as way to witness to the community. Our motivation…
Background: Paul the author of this letter, realizing that the Ephesians were starting to forsake their first love, wrote this epistle to encourage them to love both God and their fellow saints. The letter begins with love (1:4,6) and ends with love (6:23-24).1 Chapter 1-3 are principally the doctrinal elaboration of the theme, love, unity, and chapter 4-6 teach what should be the practical consequences of it for human life and relationships.2 Thus after discussing the relationship between husband and wives in chapter 5: 22-33, the apostle turns to that between children and their parents (Eph. 6)…