Daily Hope Devotionals - Jesus Model

Everyone has fears. Your problem isn’t that you’re afraid. It’s what you do with the fear that really matters. Jesus tells us in John 8:32, “You will know the truth, and the truth will set … Continue reading Two Ways to Tackle Fear

You can’t read through the Gospels without seeing how much Jesus cared about hurting people. Just look at how he preached. He always started with a hurt—poverty, blindness, brokenness, imprisonment. You can tell a lot … Continue reading Jesus Came to Help Hurting People

God cares about people in physical prisons around the world. That’s why we’ve made such an effort at Saddleback to get Celebrate Recovery—the Christ-centered recovery ministry we started—into prisons around the world. We’ve seen God … Continue reading When the Son Sets You Free . . .

Any idea where the phrase “broken heart” comes from? It comes from the Bible and is thousands of years old. In Psalm 69:20, David said: “Scorn has broken my heart and has left me helpless” … Continue reading Jesus Came for the Brokenhearted

Love can be absolutely exhausting. Don’t let anyone fool you. The kind of love that really makes a difference in this world will zap everything out of you. Sometimes you just don’t feel like you … Continue reading How to Show Love to a Demanding or Selfish Person

The apostle Paul says, “Do all your work in love” (1 Corinthians 16:14 GNT). He doesn’t say some of your work but all of your work. He also says that “no matter . . . … Continue reading Bring Your Love and Work Together

I’ve discovered that if people are not on my heart, they’re on my nerves. If you don’t have your kids in your heart, they get on your nerves. If you don’t have your spouse in … Continue reading Love People from the Heart

Love is more than attraction and more than arousal. It’s also more than sentimentality, like so many pop songs suggest. By this standard, is love dead when the emotion is gone? No, not at all. … Continue reading Love Is an Action

Too many people have bought into the myth that love is uncontrollable, that it’s something that just happens to us. In fact, even the language we use implies the uncontrollability of love. We say, “I … Continue reading Love Is a Choice

One reason God wants us to love is because he is love, and he created us to be like him—to love. The only reason we’re able to love is because God loves us: “Love comes … Continue reading We Love Because God Loves Us