Tag: Love
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Caring for the Body
1 Corinthians 12:21-27 “The eye cannot say to the hand, ‘I have no need of you,’ nor again the head to the feet, ‘I have no need of you.’ On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we…
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Patience’s Source
1 Corinthians 13:1 “Love is patient” Are you a patient person? I can assure you that I’m not as patient as I’d like to be. Oh, I can sit in a deer blind from morning to night, day after day and patiently wait to see just one deer. I can fish all day, even when…
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Motives
Titus 3:8 “The saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works. These things are excellent and profitable for people.” In the verse above it is important to note that Paul uses the word “insist” to place…
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Love: Some of the “How Tos”
Titus 2:3-4 “Older women likewise are to . . . train the young women to love their husbands and children . . .” Ephesians 6:25 “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.” One of the truths about what God has told us in His Word is that all…
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To Walk the Talk
2 Corinthians 6:3-4,6 “We put no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: . . .by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love; by truthful speech, and the power of God” You’ve heard the expression “He walks the talk.” It’s the very opposite of…
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Love’s Acts
1 John 3:16 “This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.” Sometimes the dictionary is not the best place to go for a definition. This morning I looked up the word “love.” This is how the dictionary…
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Open Hands
Psalm 145:16 “You open your hand; you satisfy the desire of every living thing.” There are many things that only God can do. He alone controls the weather. He alone sustains the universe by His mighty power. The sun continues to shine, the moon continues to rotate around the earth, the plants continue to grow and produce…
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A Glorious Goal
1 Timothy 1:5 “But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.” What benefit is there in reading and studying God’s Word? Why do it? Why did those who wrote it do so? Surely there are many reasons. However, in one of the clearest…
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First Things First
Luke 10:42 “. . . Mary has chosen the good portion” Mary and Martha were sisters. Both of them loved Jesus, and “Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus (their brother)” (John 11:5). Yet, Jesus commended Mary for something she did, while He, ever so gently, rebuked Martha. This was not Jesus’ mother Mary. Mary…
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Demonstrating Grace
2 Corinthians 1:1-2 “Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” Sometimes it’s so easy to think about…
To Encourage You 