S90P4 – That which love seeks: an end to division

Lk. 6:35-36 But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil.  Therefore, be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful. Our parents had been friends for…

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Be hope for others

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-qdmjr-fe6803 God puts hope in front of us so that we can bring that same hope to others.  Sometimes we accomplish this with words and sometimes with actions.  Let us ask God to reveal to us the opportunities we have today to be another person’s hope.

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S90P3 – That which love seeks: hope for the future

Jer. 29:11-13 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find…

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S90P2 – That which love seeks: victory

Rom. 8:37-39 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from…

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S90P1 – That which love seeks: a life lived

Jn. 3:16-17 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.  For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. Each man thought that his…

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S89P8 – The good death: attachment to this life

2 Cor. 5:6-8 So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. He had lived…

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S89P7 – The good death: a defeatist attitude

Jam. 1:12 Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him. The lead-up to the big fight was an unusual one.  He completed his weight cut and did his job on the scale, but…

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S89P6 – The good death: the heart’s other gods

Eze. 14:4-5 Therefore, speak to them, and say to them, “Thus says the Lord God: ‘Everyone of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart, and puts before him what causes him to stumble into iniquity, and then comes to the prophet, I the Lord will answer him who comes, according…

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S89P5 – The good death: guilt’s foothold

Heb. 10:19-22 Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, and having a High Priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of…

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Nobody like the Lord

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-5wh5d-fd99a3 Our God has no equal, and none are above him.  He is the undisputed greatest, which means that those who worship him should revere him in that highest place.  The proof of our worship to the one true God is the unique place He holds in our lives, and we must make sure that…

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