Happy New Year! This past weekend, I gave my last talk at a church I have served for 22 years. It was an emotional day. But, as I was getting ready to work on this week’s blog, I realized that …
Love through Touch
One of the great privileges of being a pastor is that you get to be a part of some very personal and sometimes very emotional times in people’s lives. I have had the chance to dedicate many people’s children to …
Love through Gifts
I am sure you have been asked this question many times already: “Are you ready for Christmas?” And the question, of course, is about whether or not you have purchased all the gifts needed for the friends and family on …
Love through Time
What we have been exploring in this series of blogs is that if God so loved the world to send his one and only son, then that love would be seen through all five love languages (note Gary Chapman’s book). …
Love through Words
Kelly Clarkson sang a song on American Idol last season that became an absolutely holy moment. I know that sounds like an oxymoron (holy moment and American Idol), but that is exactly what it was. And anybody who saw it …
Love through Service
Gary Chapman wrote a book a number of years ago entitled the Five Love Languages. In it he makes the point that we all have essentially five ways in which we prefer to give/receive love. Part of what he diagnosed …