True Love Is Not a Feeling

By Mark A. Wittenborn

What if we've been asking the wrong question about love?

Modern culture often defines love as a feeling-something we fall into and out of as emotions change. But feelings rise and fall with circumstances. If love depends only on emotion, what happens when life becomes difficult?

What happens when marriage becomes ordinary?
When parenting requires correction?
When forgiveness is costly?
When grief changes the shape of life?
When faithfulness must continue long after the feelings have faded?

In True Love Is Not a Feeling, Mark A. Wittenborn explores the biblical understanding of love as something far deeper: a faithful commitment expressed through truth, sacrifice, covenant, correction, forgiveness, and grace.

Drawing from Scripture, personal experience, marriage, parenting, grief, and years of pastoral ministry, Wittenborn challenges many of today's common assumptions:

Is love the same as liking?

Must love always approve or agree?

Why does God correct those He loves?

Can truth still be loving when it confronts?

What makes covenant stronger than emotion?

How can love endure suffering, disappointment, and loss?

What does the cross reveal about the true nature of love?

This book invites readers to move beyond a culture shaped by feelings and rediscover a love that remains faithful when emotions change. Love may include affection, warmth, and joy, but it cannot be sustained by feelings alone. True love must be formed by something stronger.

Ultimately, every chapter points to the One who loved first-Jesus Christ. His love is not merely an example for us to admire, but the source from which all genuine love flows.

True love tells the truth.
True love remains faithful.
True love forgives without pretending.
True love corrects without cruelty.
True love serves without applause.

Feelings may introduce us to love.

Faithfulness reveals it.

Christ makes it possible.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H7SZ3SJJ
• ISBN13: 9798185862094
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"