Weekday Word w/ Eric

Tag: jesus

  • Love and Reputation

    Proverbs 3:3-4: “Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man.” Over the course of my life, I have known several people with the reputation of being extraordinary…

  • Love Covers

    Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love covers a multitude of sins.  1 Peter 4:8 I started out the focus on love by confessing that, although I know a lot about love, I struggle to actually live it out well.  For that reason, I am comforted by the…

  • Are You “In Love?”

    1 Corinthians 16:13-14: “Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. Do everything in love.” Psalm 143:8: “Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life.” In…

  • Love God, Love People

    Matthew 22:34-40 (The Message) – When the Pharisees heard how he had bested the Sadducees, they gathered their forces for an assault. One of their religion scholars spoke for them, posing a question they hoped would show him up: “Teacher, which command in God’s Law is the most important?” Jesus said, “‘Love the Lord your…

  • 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…

  • 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…