Tag: friendship
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The Desire to be Liked
1 Samuel 10:25-27 “Then Samuel told the people the rights and duties of the kingship, and he wrote them in a book and laid it up before the Lord. Then Samuel sent all the people away, each one to his home. Saul also went to his home at Gibeah, and with him went men of valor whose hearts God…
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Tolerance
1 Corinthians 5:9-11 “I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people — not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. But now I am writing to you not to…
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Tests of Friendship
John 18:17 “The servant girl at the door said to Peter, ‘You also are not one of this man’s disciples, are you?’ He said, ‘I am not.’“ True friendship has its tests. One of those is how we act towards our “friends” when we’re around others who don’t like our friends. Our allegiances can be…
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Relationships
Colossians 3:18-24 “Wives . . . Husbands . . . Children . . . Fathers . . . Bondservants . . . You are serving the Lord Christ.” How wonderful would be our interpersonal relationships if we took the words of Colossians 3 above to heart. If we call ourselves followers of Christ, our relationships…
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Greetings
Matthew 28:9 “And behold, Jesus met them and said, ‘Greetings!’ And they came up and took hold of his feet and worshiped him. Matthew 26:49 “And he came up to Jesus at once and said, ‘Greetings, Rabbi!’ And he kissed him.” Two greetings from two people who used the same words, but with vastly different meanings. The…
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Ashamed
John 18:17 “The servant girl at the door said to Peter, ‘You also are not one of this man’s disciples, are you?’ He said, ‘I am not.’ “ True friendship has its tests. One of those is how we act towards our “friends” when we’re around others who don’t like our friends. Our allegiances can be…
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Friends!
Proverbs 17:17 “A friend loves at all times” Yesterday, I spent the day at my parents’ house helping them organize some paperwork. In the process, I came across a stash of old letters that my friends had sent me during my college years. It was a wonderful surprise as I was reminded of how much…
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Do you love? What’s your definition?
John 15:19 “If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own.” How does the world, i.e., the world that is opposed to Christ and all He represents, love? We are told in the verse above that the world does show love, i.e., “brotherly love” or phileo, as rendered in the…
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The greatest friend
John 15:15-16 “I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide.” As Christians, it is good to remind ourselves often of the things Jesus…
To Encourage You 