Tag: Love
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Honoring Mom and Dad
Exodus 20:12 “Honor your father and your mother.” How often we can take people for granted. We can fail to appreciate them as a result of our familiarity with them. This can include our own parents. Thankfully, we have God’s Word to “slap us upside the head” with an exhortation to never take them for…
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Someone loves you. . .
John 13:34 “. . . I have loved you. . .” Do you remember a time when someone told you that “so and so likes you” although you had had no idea? Maybe it was in grade school when you found out someone in your class had a crush on you. Maybe it was later…
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A God Who loves?
Exodus 19:21 “And the Lord said to Moses, ‘Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to the Lord to look and many of them perish.’” God is love. That’s what the Bible tells us. Yet, in so many of the places we read about Him, it seems to us like He’s anything…
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How big is God’s house?
1 Kings 6:2 “The house that King Solomon built for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.” The temple that Solomon built was to represent the dwelling place of God on earth. It was to be the centerpiece of worship in Israel. Yet, Solomon recognized, and we should too,…
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How’s your love life?
John 3:19 “And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.” Have you ever had a friend ask you “So, how’s your love life?” It’s a way of asking a person if there’s anyone else in their life…
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Love for sinners
Psalm 1:1-2 “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.” “Love the sinner and hate the sin” –…
To Encourage You 