The notion of separating truth and love has perhaps been around for centuries but is a hot issue today since many believe “their own truth” is more important than objective truth. Some argue that truth is more important than love, while others argue that love is more important than truth. However, separating truth and love is a mistake that can have devastating consequences. As God is love and Jesus said “I am the Truth” it is important to understand the significance of not disconnecting truth and love.

First, when it comes to communication, truth and love go hand in hand. When truth is spoken without love it often hurts; when love is expressed without truth it seems hollow. Yet love and truth are two sides of the same coin. It is challenging but essential to have love and truth fully integrated.

Second, God is love. If one believes that God is love, it is important to integrate that love into every aspect of our lives, including...

as we call to mind your work of faith, your labor of love, and your patience of hope
1 Thessalonians 1:3 

I get tired of people questioning the motives of businesspeople. Those who do so assume that the only thing on the mind of a businessperson is the bottom line. While it is true that businesses need profits to be viable, this critique of businesspeople is ill-informed; it is also not Biblical, because “love expects the best.” Paul, on the other hand, thanks God for the Thessalonians’ “work of faith,” and acknowledges that the motive for doing that work was love… your “labor of love.” You know that work is tough. Scripture doesn’t present just a portion of the picture to us: there are three parts to this equation—work, labor, and patience. You may have determined to work by faith, surrendering your business or career to God, and daily drawing on him for help. The next thing that happens is kopos which is defined as:...

Anyone who has been around longer than the Internet knows the Beatles lyric, “I don’t care too much for money, money can’t buy me love.” Many Boomers belted out this song and then went on to pursue careers that chased money. Even hippies of note trod the money trail eventually. Each successive generation of college students dreams of reinventing the economy but seldom does, perhaps because college debt locks them in the system. I am not going to go on a tangent about whether we now might do this with circular economies, blockchain, and crypto: I want to take us in a different direction by saying the Beatles were wrong: money can buy love.

It is the end of March 2022 as I write this. The blunt and brutal Russian invasion of the Ukraine persists. People are huddled in basements and bunkers. The underground train stations buried deep under Kyiv—I was in them 30 years ago—are packed with safety-seekers. I know quite a few groups who are successfully...