We grow up believing that love is meant to be all-consuming. Stories, movies, and even our own experiences teach us that the ...

Love. The word alone conjures up a thousand emotions, each of us having our own personal definition, often colored by our experiences. We speak of it like it’s the most natural thing in the world—yet, ...

Further on in Romans 8 he tells us, “We know that in everything [suffering] God works for good with those who love him who are called according to his purpose” (v. 28). Those who suffer are ...

On that hot summer day in Paris, it had taken every bit of love, and effort, and “suffering,” as Rafa likes to put it, that he could muster. Nadal had loved and suffered enough to come back ...

He set it up so that his love and mercy could be extended through the church he established. Jesus also taught us that suffering is part of the demands of discipleship. “If anyone wishes to come ...