Love One Another

 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. 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...

If You Had Been Here

 “Lord,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 22 But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.” (John 11:21-22) Last week's Gospel verse was the story of Lazarus. Jesus gets word that Lazarus is sick but does not go to where he lives until after he has died. As Jesus is walking back to Judea to raise Lazarus from death, He runs...