https://clmbooks.org/tags/agape-love/Recent content in Agape Love on Christian Living Ministries BooksHugo -- gohugo.ioen&copy; 2026 Christian Living MinistriesMon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://clmbooks.org/effective-christian-living-booklets/11-cultivating-christ-like-character/Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://clmbooks.org/effective-christian-living-booklets/11-cultivating-christ-like-character/<p><strong>PDF Title:</strong> <em>Cultivating Christ Like Character!</em></p> <p><strong>Author:</strong> Ron G. Christian</p> <h2 class="relative group">Summary <div id="summary" class="anchor"></div> <span class="absolute top-0 w-6 transition-opacity opacity-0 -start-6 not-prose group-hover:opacity-100 select-none"> <a class="text-primary-300 dark:text-neutral-700 !no-underline" href="#summary" aria-label="Anchor">#</a> </span> </h2> <p><em>Cultivating Christ Like Character!</em> is an Effective Christian Living booklet in which Ron Christian maintains that Christlike character is formed through the Holy Spirit’s gift of divine love, humble surrender, disciplined thinking, joyful obedience, and practical service to others. The booklet asserts that agape love is the capstone of Christian virtue, enabling believers to love enemies, forgive offenders, serve the needy, show kindness to sinners, and become channels of holy love in a harsh world. Ron Christian contends that humility does not require humiliation, because believers find dignity in belonging to Christ while refusing pride, self-centeredness, and boasting. The work also proposes that Christians must cultivate self-control by fixing their minds on Christ, practice obedience without legalism, become peacemakers, respond to moral evil with balanced righteousness and mercy, and remain patient with unbelieving persons. Its central message is that genuine Christian character is not produced by human effort alone, but by the Holy Spirit’s cleansing and empowering love, which creates inward purity and outward power for witness, compassion, peace, and social responsibility.</p>https://clmbooks.org/from-rons-journal/what-is-the-secret-to-marriage/Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://clmbooks.org/from-rons-journal/what-is-the-secret-to-marriage/<p><strong>PDF Title:</strong> <em>What is the Secret to Marriage?</em></p> <p><strong>Author:</strong> Ron Christian</p> <h2 class="relative group">Summary <div id="summary" class="anchor"></div> <span class="absolute top-0 w-6 transition-opacity opacity-0 -start-6 not-prose group-hover:opacity-100 select-none"> <a class="text-primary-300 dark:text-neutral-700 !no-underline" href="#summary" aria-label="Anchor">#</a> </span> </h2> <p><em>What is the Secret to Marriage?</em> is a reflective Christian writing in which Ron Christian maintains that a great marriage is built on mutual honor, friendship, encouragement, prayer, laughter, and the flow of God’s self-giving love between husband and wife. The piece asserts that marriage partners should build one another up rather than criticize, belittle, compete with, or wound each other through cruel humor. Ron Christian contends that when both partners focus on pleasing Christ, they gain the desire and motivation to serve one another with genuine love. The writing also proposes that couples should learn to laugh together through the ordinary, odd, embarrassing, and difficult moments of life, because shared laughter can help lighten burdens, soften hardship, and strengthen companionship. Its central message is that a Christ-centered marriage grows strong when both partners love God supremely, treat each other as best friends, pray together, laugh together, and become channels of divine-type love to one another.</p>