Share Love
YouVersion bible app challenged us to share love today so we are passing that challenge on to you. John 13:34 – Love One Another!
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Love Builds Up
This may sound really similar to last week’s post about love encourages. However, there is a slight slant to it. The words in 1 Corinthians 13:5 are “[love] does...
Be A Barnabas
Barnabas in the bible means “Son of Encouragement”. Do you have a Barnabas in your life? Someone who always cheers you on, who supports you and wants the best...
Love Encourages
Is there anyone out there who has never needed a little bit of encouragement? From the time we are babies learning how to walk all the way to adults...
Love Does Not Boast
Someone who is comfortable with who they are and the skills they have or do not have does not need to boast. Other people will recognize them for what...
Love Cares
Do you feel lonely and isolated? The most common comment people have been making to us lately about needs people have is that they feel alone. We aren’t meant...
Real Groups
How do we grow in our love for others? We have to practice. We have to practice a lot. God gave us the immediate family unit to learn about...
Supply and Demand
– What resource should churches have more of than any other type of organization?– What type of resource has the power to change lives and yet costs nothing at...
Love Cares
1 Corinthians 13:4a Love is patient, love is kind. We are starting on our fifth month of writing about how love is active and finally getting back to the “love chapter”,...
Does Your Love Show?
The five primary love languages are: physical touch, quality time, acts of service, words of affirmation, and gifts. (The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman) Everyone gives and receives...
They Will Know
Does our love show? Do people around us notice the love of God in our lives? Are we shining our little lights? Think about the lyrics to this song...
Love Shows
By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. John 13:35 When someone has a crush, it is usually pretty obvious to others...
Love Weeps
What breaks your heart? What injustice makes you angry when you see reports about it on the news? There are a lot of things to choose from: people going...
Love Weeps
One of the few times in my life so far that I feel like I heard the audible voice of God was in the midst of our fifth miscarriage....
Give It
1 John 4:19 We love because he first loved us. The third aspect of our tagline reminds us of our relationship with the world. How do we treat those...
Grow It
John 13:35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. 1 John 4:7a Dear friends, let us love one another, for love...
Get It
1 John 3:1a See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! The first part of our tag line is...
Tagline!
This week, we are sharing our new tagline. We finally decided on it right before we ordered our materials and we are excited to try it out. Get It...
A Party?
Continuing our theme on Love Rejoices, we wanted to address celebrating. Jesus went to parties. He performed his first miracle by helping out with a low supply of wine...
Love Rejoices!
When you love someone, you want the best for them. It is so satisfying when something great happens to someone you love or when they make a great choice...
Love Speaks
Acts 2:7 Utterly amazed, they asked: “Aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans? 8 Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language? 9 Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of...
Who Are You Listening To?
I believe God is always speaking to us. Think of his voice like a radio station. Even when you don’t have it on, it is still broadcasting. To hear...
What is he listening to?
Have you ever noticed that people sure give God a lot to listen to? We have all the cases of the Israelites grumbling (like we never do), and Adam...
Love Listens
I have a confession to make. . . sometimes I tune my kids out. I know that it is important to listen now when the concerns are small so...
Love Pauses 2
Who likes to be interrupted? Who likes having plans derailed and things cancelled or postponed? Who likes being put on hold?We are continuing with our theme of Love Pauses...
Love Pauses
Pausing seems to be very closely related to waiting, but we are not talking about just stopping what you are doing. In the bible, when God pauses, it is...