Morning Coffee With Renae

I John 4:20-21 “If anyone says, “I love God,” yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.”
Can I be honest [...]

I John 4:19 “We love because he first loved us.”
Do you remember your first love? I do. Well, actually, I remember my first loves. I was in kindergarten, and I had two beaus, Casey and Ray. One day, they told me I had to choose between them, so I gave them a test. After all, [...]

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.
I JOHN 4:18 NAS
My children are . . . wonderful. And rotten. Sometimes, when I threaten punishment for some infraction or another, they just giggle. Can you believe that? They [...]

I John 4:16-17 “And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgement, because in this world we [...]

I John 4:14-16a “And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the son of God, God lives in Him and he in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.”
My grandmother’s [...]

I John 4:13 “We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.”
My maiden name is Smith. Try as I may, I have difficulty tracing my family tree past a certain point. There are just too many of us! But the name Brumbaugh is a different [...]

I John 4:11-12 “Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.”
Do you ever wonder what it would be like to see God? I do. I [...]

I John 4:9-10 “This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.”
I love my [...]

I John 4:7-8 “Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.”
Ouch. This verse gets straight to the point, doesn’t it? If I love, I know God. If I [...]

I John 4:4-6 “You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God, and [...]