Many times, life feels like a roller-coaster ride of high hills and huge dips where it’s easy to let our emotions start to control us. The Book of Psalms offers help on handling the emotional ups and downs of life.

To restore real love, agape love, we must stop the destructive flood of fear that creates conflict and start the restoring flood of love with loving words and actions and, most importantly, rest in the never-failing love of God!

1 Corinthians 13 is best known as the love chapter. In just five verses, Paul offers 16 descriptions of love. Seven of those descriptions tell us what love is, and nine tell us what love is not.

“If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I […]

There are three things that can never be washed away by a flood, destroyed by fire, or fade with time – faith, hope and love. “… But the greatest of these is love.” As great and enduring as faith and hope are, love is superior!

One of the three abiding qualities that God says will remain when the sandcastles of our lives are washed away is hope! Hopelessness is a common emotion when we experience loss. We feel hopeless. Yet, it’s in those very times when the God of all hope wants to flood our souls with hope.

When our kids were younger, we used to love to go to the beach and build sandcastles. Hours were spent forming and sculpting the sand with the complete understanding that, in just moments, the tide would come in and wash it all away.