Top 4 Christian Posts-Love …

Everyday Servants weekly links to 4 top Christian posts…

This week, posts from Anne Marie Miller, Tim Challies, Jon Acuff and Jon Bloom…

This week, posts about love…

1. Loving the neighbor we didn’t choose

2. Loving people after we learn their secrets

3. Loving people hurt by divorce

4. Loving in times of trouble…

1. Loving the neighbor we didn’t choose…

Does a warm, fulfilling feeling come over you when think about this basic tenant of Christianity?

Pretty good idea in the abstract, isn’t it?

But how about your actual neighbors…

The people close to you?

Family members…

People who live next door…

People we know at church?

Sometimes the people physically closest to us are hardest to love.

Not only because they are close…but because we didn’t choose them as neighbors…

In a post from Desiring God, Jon Bloom explores the special difficulty of loving the neighbor we didn’t choose…

2. Loving someone when we now the truth about them…

Find out something you didn’t know about somebody you love?

Did your discovery change your love for them?

Tim Challies looks at the risky side of human love, and how if differs from God’s love for us ….

As he and his blog readers consider J.I. Packers’ classic, Knowing God

3. Loving the victims of divorce

Jon Acuff showed Christian love to his neighbor on an airplane…

And learned an unexpected lesson about the causalities when love in a family goes wrong…

When marriage ends in divorce…

4. Loving your spouse in times of trouble…

Ann Marie Miller shares a very honest look at the difficulties she and her spouse are facing…

What happens when you love your spouse…

But things go wrong in your life outside your marriage?

How can you and your spouse walk through the tough times together?

How do you stay certain about your marriage when the rest of your life is wrapped in uncertainty?

Read Anne Marie Miller’s guest post from the Marriage Roots blog…

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