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Tag: John 3:16

Love That Endures Forever; What We All Need This Valentine’s Day

February 14, 2017CarmenFowlerLaBergeBible, Carmen Fowler LaBerge, John 3:16, Love, Valentines Day

(Blog originally posted 2/12/16. Updated on 2/14/17). Life is fleeting but love endures forever. By tomorrow, Valentine’s Day will be over. The roses and chocolates and cards will be history, but we will still need to know that we are loved. My husband sat on the steps and held out a ring. It was large and worn…

Prodigal Love for a Prodigal World

January 4, 2016LaymanAllah, Christianity, God, Islam, John 3:16, Mateen Elass

By Mateen Elass, posted on his personal blog site. Nowhere do the different theological visions of Islam and Christianity appear more starkly than in the Muslim denunciation of the gospel as reflected in its assessment of John 3:16, which Christians often speak of as “the gospel in a nutshell”: God so loved the world that…