Loving Jesus More
Do you love Jesus more than your spouse? Your reputation? Your kids? Your health? Your job? Your money?
As Christians, we're called to love Jesus more than anyone or anything else. But do we really do this? Emphasizing that God's love for us is the source of our love for him, Phil Ryken challenges us to take Jesus's words seriously and think carefully about where our affections truly lie.
Top Highlights
“The language he uses to describe what life is like without Christ, or before Christ, is dark and depressing. We were ‘foolish,’ he says, ‘led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another’ (Titus 3:3).” (source)
“But perhaps the greatest motivation for responding to Jesus with an affectionate intellect is this: we should love Jesus with all of our minds because he loves us with all of his mind.” (source)
“has placed his love into our hearts specifically through the delivery of the Holy Spirit.” (source)
“ when you speak but little of Christ, it is a sign that you love Him but little” (source)
“Right thinking about God exists to serve right feelings for God.’2” (source)
Product Details
- Title : Loving Jesus More
- Author: Ryken, Philip Graham
- Publisher: Crossway
- Publication Date: 2014
- ISBN: 9781433534119
Philip Graham Ryken (DPhil, University of Oxford) is the eighth president of Wheaton College. He preached at Philadelphia's Tenth Presbyterian Church from 1995 until his appointment at Wheaton in 2010. Ryken has published more than fifty books, including When Trouble Comes and expository commentaries on Exodus, Ecclesiastes, and Jeremiah. He serves as a board member for the Gospel Coalition and the Lausanne Movement.