The Love Chapter

Has something happened in your life, or in a friend’s life, recently which has caused a radical change, a hardening of attitude toward others? The sort of thing that tends to go by the name of “growing up,” or “smelling the coffee”? Have you found yourself wondering why life has to be that way?

My wife and I are acquainted with a young woman we like and admire who has been having a hard time of it lately. Some of the things she says in passing tell of her sense of disillusionment and betrayal, of the difficulty of a recently ended relationship with a young man — a young man she loved and whom she believed loved her. Her distress is palpable. She says she is resigned to the fact that this is the only way it can be, and she must learn to live with it; to endure. Before my eyes, she is changing, becoming more sad, more hardened and cynical.

We hear much about love today. It’s a multi-billion dollar business, don’t you know. Yet, so many of us haven’t a clue. We haven’t a clue. Most of what is said and done in “the name of love”, as the popular song wails, is emptiness, and leaves us empty as well, when all is said and done. Do you wonder why?

In a rather short book called The Love Chapter, you just may discover the answer. Part of a collection of four Christian Classics this book is centered on First Corinthians 13, the chapter in St. Paul’s famous “Love” letter which begins “If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love…” this book offers a collection of the sermons of one of the greatest preachers in the history of the Church. Here at THE Christian Book Corner we delight in offering books, videos, cds and other media which can help souls find the way, and then accompany souls as they journey along it. In The Love Chapter St. John Chrysostom explains the words of St. Paul to the Corinthians all those years ago in a way that speaks very clearly even today, cleanly cutting through all the garbage a hedonistic culture tends to foist upon or minds and hearts to justify its own mistakes.

What does it mean to say, “I love you?” How does one know one is loved, truly? What, in the end, is love? Visit http://www.thechristianbookcorner.com and browse our collection of timeless Christian classics and valuable Christian literature to find materials that contain answers to these questions and quite a lot of other ones; honest, true and lasting answers, the only ones worth finding.