67. The Steadfast Love of the Lord. Sam Storms. 2025. 240 pages. [Source: Library] [4 stars, christian nonfiction, christian living]
First sentence: It only makes sense that before we dive into an exploration of the steadfast love of God that we define love itself. You may think that's a no-brainer, but the distortions of love in our world today have made this a somewhat arduous task.
Sam Storms' newest book is about the steadfast love of the LORD. In many cases an example of what you see is what you get. The love of God is a subject that is simple and complex; one could drink of its richness, of its depth for decades upon decades and still find more, more, more. It's a subject worthy of our attention because HIS LOVE is so often unlike our own love. Oh, we try (and try and try and try) to love others, to love as He loves. But GOD's love is so amazingly amazing and extraordinary that it will always be a thing of wonder and awe.
Here Storms shares in thirteen chapters insights and lessons about the love of God.
1. Love is Love. Or is it?
2. How Long Will God's Love Last?
3. Sovereign Lord on Bended Knee
4. The Look of Steadfast Love
5. The Touch of Steadfast Love
6. Strengthened by the Spirit to Enjoy God's Love
7. Love in the Most Famous Verse in the Bible
8. When God Loves the Unlovely
9. Overwhelmed by the Floodwaters of God's Love
10. The "Much More" Love of God
11. The Incalculable, Insurmountable, Sin-Killing, Soul-Preserving Love of God
12. Saved by the Love of a Sovereign God
13. The Father's Loving Passion for His People
Conclusion: May the Lord Direct Your Heart Into the Love of God
Quotes:
To truly love a person you must say and do all that you can to direct them to beliefs and behaviors that align with their eternal destiny in the presence of God in the new heaven and new earth. That is love.
At no time during his earthly life, at no time during your earthly life, does Jesus cease to be sovereign.
The only sin that can be defeated is a sin that has been forgiven. ~ John Piper
Being right with God must precede doing right for God.
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