Why am I so unlucky in love?

Question: Hello, I’m a young lady, aged 21. This issue has been bothering me for a while now and I just feel I need someone who can counsel me. Several years ago, I started my first year at college. After a few weeks, I met a very cute guy and I immediately developed a crush…

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What Is This Thing Called Love?

https://www.lavistachurchofchrist.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/What-Is-this-Thing-Called-Love.mp3 by Jeffrey W. Hamilton Text: Song of Solomon 8:6-7   I.         We use the word “love” freely today. Perhaps too freely.             A.        I love to have another piece of cake.             B.        Mama loves her baby.             C.        He fell in love with her at first sight.             D.        He loved her through fifty yeas of marriage.             E.        I love my country. II.        The…

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Should I marry a guy I knew for less than two weeks?

Question: I was on an internship in a Muslim country. Only ten days were left before the completion of my internship. I met this guy several times. He cared a lot about me. I never received this kind of care from any other person before. In those few days, we meet every night for five…

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Love is Different

by Jeffrey W. Hamilton Paul’s description of love in I Corinthians 13:4-8 is both well-known and unheeded. Despite knowing what love is and is not, people still expect more of love. They want the fluttery feeling of butterflies in the stomach and the emotional high. To many, love isn’t real without the emotions. But are…

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How can I handle infatuation?

Question: I am a male and 24 years old. I have been having trouble with infatuating over women I find attractive. I’ve struggled with this for a good majority of my life, where I’ll infatuate over one woman for a period of time and then it will fade, and then another woman will come along.…

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Are same-sex relationships wrong if they are non-sexual?

Question: Does it make any difference at all if the girl – girl or boy -boy relationships are not sexual? What I am trying to ask is would being infatuated or “falling in love” with someone of the same sex be a sin? Answer: Oh, the mess our over-sexualized world has made of relationships between…

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