Tag: Love
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Love Changes Lives
2 Corinthians 5:17 – Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. The Sun Does Shine is Ray Hinton’s own autobiographical story. Hinton spent 30 years on death row for murders he did not commit because the white sheriff, the white judge,…
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Loving Life
Deut. 30:19-20 – “Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, so that you and your descendants might live! You can make this choice by loving the Lord your…
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Love When It’s Hard
Proverbs 25:21-22 and Romans 12:20 “If your enemies are hungry, give them food to eat. If they are thirsty, give them water to drink. You will heap burning coals of shame on their heads, and the Lord will reward you.” The message of this scripture really is straightforward. We are to love people that we…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
