Today we continue with Johann Gerhard’s Meditation IX, “Loving God Alone.” In this installment, Gerhard leads us to ponder how God’s love leads us to a saving knowledge of Him and just when loving God alone will be perfected. (Also listen to Part 1 and Part 2.) Source: Sacred Meditations …
God has taught us to love Him and our neighbor. Thus we pray that He would grant us His Holy Spirit, so that we may be devoted to Him and to one another. Collect for Proper 9 (the Sunday closest to July 6), from The Book of Common Prayer. http://media.blubrry.com/sacredmeditations/sacredmeditations.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/10-Proper-9-BCP-2.mp3Podcast: …
In his Meditation IX, “Loving God Alone,” Johann Gerhard contrasts loving God with loving created things (Listen to part 1 here.). In today’s portion of that meditation, Gerhard stresses that created things cannot love us back. But God does, because He loves us first. Source: Sacred Meditations by Johann Gerhard, …
“May love bind thee fast to the Lord.” That’s how Johann Gerhard introduces his meditation “Loving God Alone” (Meditation IX). Today we …
In today’s meditation, Pastor Johann Arndt sets before us two goals that direct our course of life. Taken together, these two goals …
Jesus taught us to love both God and our neighbor (see Matthew 22:34-40). In this meditation, Johann Arndt explores how love for …
We have heard Johann Arndt meditate on loving God from a pure heart. (Listen here.) In today’s meditation, Arndt explores what he …
Our Lord Jesus teaches us two great commandments: first, to love God with every fiber of our being, and second, to love …
