It's NOT because we don't pray or read the Bible enough.
| | Why do we lose our “first love” for God? | Learning to see our need for the Lord | | Just as any human relationship can grow cool and distant, so can our relationship with the Lord. Understanding why we lose our first love will give us insight into regaining it again. So, how do we lose our first love? | Do we lose our first love because we stop reading God’s Word?
No, because even the Pharisees, who never had a love for Jesus, were diligent in their religious studying of God’s Word.
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Hymn History: “There’s Within My Heart a Melody” | By his mid-twenties, Luther Bridgers had a growing family and a busy ministry of preaching, evangelism, and church-planting. One day while his wife and children were visiting grandparents, tragedy struck. “Fire! Fire!” | |
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Lessons Not Just Applicable to Horses | Have you ever seen the quick, darting, grace of a cutting horse as he keeps a cow out of the herd? Or the easy, muscular nonchalance of a trained jumper as he crests a high hedge at a gallop? Do you ever wish you could be a little like that? | |
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Do Not I Fill Heaven and Earth? | God is not “mixed with” heaven and earth. He “fills,” as in wholly occupies and possesses, heaven and earth! Just as the light of the sun fills the air but it is not mixed with the air, so God fills all the universe without mixture. | |
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Daniel Lindley: Willing to Make Every Sacrifice | At the time that he offered his services to the American Board of Foreign Missions, David Livingstone had not yet been to Africa, and its vast interior was still a blank spot on the map. But if God was truly the omnipresent Lord of the universe, He was Lord over the vast, uncharted African continent too. | |
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| Biblical Character Illustrated Curriculum 2025 Set | | | | A special set of the Biblical Character Illustrated Curriculum, including just the 12 qualities you’ll need to follow along with the 2025 Biblical Character Calendar! |
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