Jesus taught us to love both God and our neighbor (see Matthew 22:34-40). In this meditation, Johann Arndt explores how love for God cannot exist without neighbor-love (Listen). Faith active in love is how we live as disciples of Jesus. Source: Devotions and Prayers of Johann Arndt, selected and translated …
We have heard Johann Arndt meditate on loving God from a pure heart. (Listen here.) In today’s meditation, Arndt explores what he calls “neighbor-love” and how it relates to loving God. Source: Devotions and Prayers of Johann Arndt, selected and translated by John Joseph Stoudt, pages 36-37 (Meditation from Arndt’s …
Our Lord Jesus teaches us two great commandments: first, to love God with every fiber of our being, and second, to love our neighbor as ourselves (see Matthew 22:34-40). In today’s meditation, Johann Arndt explores how we love from a pure heart. Source: Devotions and Prayers of Johann Arndt, selected …
God has created us in His own image. So we pray that He would grant us grace to contend against evil and …
In His earthly life, our Lord Jesus Christ shared our toil and hallowed our labor. We pray that He would be present …
In previous meditations, Johann Gerhard has exhorted us to cultivate true humility. How so? First, by pondering our condition as human beings, …
True humility comes, first, from considering our human condition and, second, by pondering the example of Jesus Himself (Part 1). Like a …
Johann Gerhard has encouraged us to cultivate true humility, first, by considering our lowly condition as human beings and, second, by considering …
“What is Man? What is a Bubble? They are alike Nothing.” That’s how Johann Gerhard introduces his Meditation 34 on “The Cultivation …
God–Father, Son, and Holy Spirit–gives all good things. Therefore we pray that He would graft into our hearts all good things: the …
