Archive for January 2019
S5P4 – Loving God with whole strength
Mark 12:30 “and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul [life], and with all your mind [thought, understanding], and with all your strength.” Our strength is our might and power; it is our ability. The paradox is that while this commandment requires that we love God…
Read MoreS5P3 – Loving God with a whole mind
Mark 12:30 “and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul [life], and with all your mind [thought, understanding], and with all your strength.” We all have heard the phrase the mind is a terrible thing to waste. I am not sure who is credited with coining…
Read MoreS5P2 – Loving God with a whole soul
Mark 12:30 “and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul [life], and with all your mind [thought, understanding], and with all your strength.” What is the soul? When Jesus said that life is more than food, he used this same word (Luke 12:23). It is also…
Read MoreS5P1 – Loving God with a whole heart
Mark 12:30 “and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul [life], and with all your mind [thought, understanding], and with all your strength.” Jesus tells us that this is the first and most important commandment. As such, it is crucial that we understand how to fulfill…
Read MoreRelationship 101: discerning the disease
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9nidv-a5e396 We’ve all experienced failed personal relationships. During such times, it is common for us to focus on the symptoms of the greater problem that caused the breakdown and not on the problem’s true root. This week we discuss how to shift the focus from the symptom to the disease to provide clarity of the…
Read MoreS4P9 – The fruit of self-control
Gal 5: 22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit [the result of His presence within us] is love [unselfish concern for others], joy, [inner] peace, patience [not the ability to wait, but how we act while waiting], kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law. In Peter’s second letter to the…
Read MoreS4P8 – The fruit of gentleness
Gal 5: 22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit [the result of His presence within us] is love [unselfish concern for others], joy, [inner] peace, patience [not the ability to wait, but how we act while waiting], kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law. The gentle person is meek, mild,…
Read MoreS4P7 – The fruit of faithfulness
Gal 5: 22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit [the result of His presence within us] is love [unselfish concern for others], joy, [inner] peace, patience [not the ability to wait, but how we act while waiting], kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law. Faithfulness is showing that one can…
Read MoreS4P6 – The fruit of goodness
Gal 5: 22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit [the result of His presence within us] is love [unselfish concern for others], joy, [inner] peace, patience [not the ability to wait, but how we act while waiting], kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law. The word translated as goodness in…
Read MoreS4P5 – The fruit of kindness
Gal 5: 22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit [the result of His presence within us] is love [unselfish concern for others], joy, [inner] peace, patience [not the ability to wait, but how we act while waiting], kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law. There are two scriptures in which…
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