Press Pause Podcast Gospel-Centered Family

First, we’re instructed to love God, not just with some part of our lives, but with everything we have (our entire heart, soul, and mind). But that’s not all. Jesus reminds us that after loving God, the next most important thing we can do is to love our neighbors as ourselves.

God’s kingdom is where we live life with God under His loving rule. God’s kingdom is the place where God’s dream for the world comes true.

The Bible is true, sufficient, clear, authoritative, and necessary. And those aren’t even the most important things about the Bible. The most important thing about the Bible is that it teaches us about Jesus. 

God’s glory isn’t one of his characteristics (like his goodness, holiness, strength, or beauty), but is instead the culmination of all His perfections shining forth for the world to behold. God’s glory is the full display of everything that’s good and true about Him.

It’s important for us to understand how and why God created Adam and Eve because that’s where we came from. We can all trace our family tree all the way back to them (though it might take a long time on ancestry.com) God gave us the same gift of life and humanity that He gave to them in creation.

God wired us to long for and seek glorious things. We’re drawn toward God’s glory when we read in the Bible about God miraculously protecting his people as they crossed the Red Sea. We’re also drawn to God when we wake up to six inches of beautiful, fluffy snow to play in. We can recognize God’s creative hand behind the snow, and we’re in awe of him. We experience God’s glory when we taste an incredible stuffed crust pizza. Do you realize that God created our tiny taste buds and the laws of science that help that crust to get perfectly crispy? Stuffed crust is just one of the small things that put God’s glory on display!