8 Choices That Create a Love That Lasts

by Jill Briscoe

Overview

Not everything is within our power to control. But, thankfully, some of the most important things are.

Beloved author Jill Briscoe shares eight concrete choices that are guaranteed to fill your life with love — the kind of love that lasts. Based on the "love chapter" of the Bible, 1 Corinthians 13, the choices shared in these pages will give you the power to love not only God and yourself but to infuse love into every relationship in your life.

You Can Choose a Life of Lasting Love

Choose love through these eight life-empowering choices:

1. The choice to love God
2. The choice to love when love runs out
3. The choice to love those in your church family
4. The choice to love those who drive you up the wall
5. The choice not to love things too much
6. The choice to love when you're provoked
7. The choice to love and trust again
8. The choice to love God up close and personal

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781582296647
Publisher:	Howard Books
Publication date:	01/09/2007
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Author and coauthor of numerous articles and more than fifty books, including study guides, devotionals, poetry, and children's books, Jill Briscoe's active speaking and writing ministry regularly takes her around the world. Jill currently serves as a minister-at-large for Elmbrook Church in Brookfield, Wisconsin, with her husband, Stuart. She is executive editor of Just Between Us magazine, advises numerous nonprofit organizations, and serves on the board of numerous nonprofit Relief and Christianity Today, Inc. Jill and Stuart have three children and thirteen grandchildren.

Table of Contents

Choosing Love: Introduction     xi
Choosing to Love God Back     1
Choosing to Love When Love Runs Out     29
Choosing to Love the Church: (Even When It's Difficult)     57
Choosing to Love Those Who Drive Us Up the Wall     85
Choosing to Love Things Less     115
Choosing to Love When We're Provoked     149
Choosing to Love and Trust Again     177
Choosing to Love God Up Close and Personal     203
A Prayer to Share: Epilogue     229
Notes     231