Jim Novell

The overarching focus of the first four books of the New Testament, what are referred to as the Gospels, is the person and work of God the Son, Jesus Christ, who came into this world as the promised Messiah, the one who will save repentant men and women from the eternal consequences of their sin, […]

Jesus in Luke 10:17-20, shares an account of an event that occurred during His ministry wherein His closest disciples, who He had given spiritual authority to assist Him in the proclamation of the Gospel, have just returned from a highly successful mission in which they have cast out demons and miraculously healed sick people, while

It should be obvious by now that I love writing about the love of God.  I mean, what could be more glorious, more exhilarating, more exciting, more fulfilling then to know that you are loved deeply and personally by the most glorious, most desirable, most excellent, most essential, most awesome Being in all of the

I would like you to ponder the following:  What motivates you to live like you do?  What is it that compels you to do certain things and constrains you from doing other things? What ultimately and primarily influences your decisions to act and behave in certain ways and not in others? For some, the answer

I noted in my previous post that what makes the “love of God” the greatest love of all is first and foremost that it is “His own love” (Romans 5:8), love that emanates from the heart of the infinitely glorious eternal God, whose nature and character is that of love (1 John 4:8), love which

In my previous post I acknowledged what is evident in the glory of the creation, in redemptive history as it is recorded in the Bible, and in the person and work of Jesus Christ, God the Son; namely that God’s love is the greatest love of all, far exceeding any love that man has for

Whitney Houston’s rendition of the song, The Greatest Love of All, was number one on the “Hot 100 Chart” for three weeks in 1986. The song melodiously informs us from both a psychological and existential perspective that the single most important aspect of our existence is self-love as she renders this worldly wisdom: The greatest

In my previous post I looked at some very sensible and logical reasons why we should obey God’s command given in 1 John 2:15-17 to not love this world nor the things of this world. Love for the world is seen in these verses as being contrary to love for God.  In fact, James 4:4

In 1 John 2:15–17, God, through the Apostle John, gives us a very clear, concise and all-encompassing command, “DO NOT love the world nor the things of this world”. It is given as an emphatic warning such as one would give to a young child to not play in the street or touch a hot