Bruce Mitchell

I'm a Christ-Follower. Following Christ isn't about escaping the fires of hell, it's not about raising your hand when no one is looking to join a club. It's about daily picking up your cross, and it shows through the fruit of the spirit in your life.

The summer our church doubled, bikers sat in our front rows in leather and helmets. After the new building went up, they stopped coming. Same church. Two churches. A founder’s confession on pride, legalism, and greater grace: allelon.us/2026/11/08/a-tale…

Whoever wins, we pray for them. Paul asked that with Nero on the throne. Peter told the council, “We must obey God rather than men,” then wrote, “Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.” Love one another. Rom 13:1-7, 1 Tim 2:1-2, 1 Pet 2:13-17, Acts 5:29

If You Love Me, Keep My Commandments On the night before the cross, Jesus said, "Love one another" five times. When someone says one thing five times on the last night of his life, he wants you to remember it. John 13:34–35, 15:12, 15:17 allelon.us/2026/10/30/his-co…

Lord Jesus, You knelt with a towel on the night You were betrayed. You washed the feet of those You knew would run. And You told us, again and again, to love one another the way You loved us. We confess that we've often traded Your command for a list we could manage. We've measured people when You asked us to wash their feet. Forgive us. Keep us, the way You kept Your disciples. Guard our hearts. Hold us close through the long seasons. Let Your words be the treasure we keep. Holy Spirit, grow the fruit we can't grow ourselves. Make us branches that stay on the Vine. Fill us with love for God, for our neighbors, for our enemies, and for one another. Let the world look at Your church and know whose disciples we are. In the name of Jesus, who loved us to the very end, Amen.

Here’s a fun one, friends. No Bible apps, no search engines, just memory. Name as many “one another” commands from the New Testament as you can. Here’s a hint: every one of them is a way of showing love. Jesus gave the big one, “Love one another,” and the rest show us what that love looks like in everyday life. I’ll start: “Forgive one another” (Ephesians 4:32). Love keeps no record of wrongs. Your turn!

There is no exception clause to the love we are to show.

Moses said Love your neighbor as yourself. Jesus said Love each other as I have loved you. The measure moved from me to the cross.

Father, You have not changed. The God who spoke at Sinai is the God who bled at Calvary, and You have loved Your people the whole way through. Thank You for the Law You gave through Moses, holy and right and good. Thank You for Jesus, who played every note of it and never missed a measure. Forgive me for the judgments I carry into rooms before I've heard a single word. Forgive me for the grudges I keep in the dark where only You can see them. Take out my heart of stone. Write Your love where I could never carve it. Teach me to love You with everything I am, to love my neighbor as myself, to love my enemy as You loved Yours, and to love my brothers and sisters as You have loved me. Keep my eyes on You, my Conductor. In the long rests and the wrong notes, bring me back in. In the name of Jesus, who fulfilled it all, Amen.

Goodness toward enemies is a family resemblance.

What He commands, He supplies.

I'm a Christ-Follower, and I love you if you're gay. I love you if you're straight. I love you if the scale is kind to you, and I love you if it isn't. I love you if your mind is quiet today. I love you if it's a storm you can't find your way out of. I love you if you vote blue. I love you if you vote red. Jesus sat down at a well with a woman everyone else had already decided about. He didn't ask for her credentials. He asked her for a drink. (John 4) And on His last night, with the bread still warm on the table, He told us how the world would recognize us: "Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples." (John 13:35) No asterisk. No fine print. There's no room for hate at His table. He set too many places.

Who said?: “I’ve been smoking them for 30 years and never got the habit.”

Grace found you before you cleaned anything up. Still finding you now. Not under the law, keeping score. Under grace (Rom 6:14). That's not a nice idea. That's the ground we stand on. #LivingInGodsGrace

Somebody called me at 2am once. No rulebook told me to answer it. But Paul wrote it plain: bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. Six hundred rules boiled down to one word. Love.

Grace found you before you cleaned anything up. Still finding you now. Not under the law, keeping score. Under grace (Rom 6:14). That's not a nice idea. That's the ground we stand on. #LivingInGodsGrace

My grandmother kept a quilt she reached for whenever someone in the family was hurting. Frayed, mismatched, worn — but it always stayed put. That's what love does. "Love covers a multitude of sins." — 1 Peter 4:8 #LoveThatStays #1Peter4

Love isn't just kindness. It's where love comes from that matters. "Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God." 1 John 4:7 Its source is God Himself.

You can't see God. But people can see Him through your love for each other. "No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us." 1 John 4:12 Let your love make Him visible.