Weekday Word w/ Eric

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  • If God is Love, Then. . .

    1 John 4:7-21 –  “Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.  Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son…

  • The Target

    The Target 1 Corinthians 13:1-8  If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.  If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move…

  • All That’s Left. . .

    1 Cor 13:13 – And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. We’ve been focusing on faith and hope and now we move to love.  Being confessional, I know a lot about all three, but as far as practicing them, I feel like I struggle with love…

  • The Source of Our Hope

    Romans 15:13 “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” I often ask children, “where does Jesus live?”  I used to do it at the beginning of Chapel at a church I…

  • A Living Hope

    1 Peter 1:3-9 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,  and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven…

  • A Critical Life Skill

    Several quick scriptures today: 2 Chron 15:7 “But as for you, be strong and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded.” Gal 6:9 “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” 2 Cor 4:1 “Therefore, since…

  • Scavengers of Hope

    Finally, beloved, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. Keep on doing the things that you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, and…

  • Optimism vs. Hope

    Optimism vs Hope This is what the Lord says: “You will be in Babylon for seventy years. But then I will come and do for you all the good things I have promised, and I will bring you home again.  For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans…

  • As One With Authority

    “These words I speak to you are not incidental additions to your life, homeowner improvements to your standard of living. They are foundational words, words to build a life on. If you work these words into your life, you are like a smart carpenter who built his house on solid rock. Rain poured down, the…

  • Can’t Live Without This

    Romans 5:2-5 The Voice “Jesus leads us into a place of radical grace where we are able to celebrate the hope of experiencing God’s glory.  And that’s not all. We also celebrate in seasons of suffering because we know that when we suffer we develop endurance,  which shapes our characters. When our characters are refined,…