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The One True Valentine
The Love Chapter. 1 Corinthians 13. If I began by simply stating, “Love is patient. Love is kind,” you would possibly know most of the rest. Because it is used at various weddings. The words are plastered throughout the year for a number of reasons. At times, it is even used as a Valentine’s message…
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Speaking the Truth
Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church. Ephesians 4:15 I want you to think back to the last difficult conversation you had to have with someone. This would have been a conversation in which you had…
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Love God, Love People…But Yourself?
Jesus replied, “The most important commandment is this: ‘Listen, O Israel! The Lord our God is the one and only Lord. And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength. The second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.” Mark 12:29-31,…
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In the Isolation, He is There
And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow-not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky, above or in the earth below-indeed, nothing in…
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More Than Words
If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t…
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On Trend: Love
Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds us all together in perfect harmony. Colossians 3:14 The teen years. It’s a rite of passage. And if you, as we are, are raising a teen; it can also be a day by day struggle to build a healthy sense of self. How exactly? Well, as it…
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As He Has Loved You
This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. John 15:12 There are ten commandments provided by God. Spoken through Moses. Then there is the commandment given by Jesus, not canceling the first ten; but making them all possible to do. Through love. In John 15, Jesus is speaking…
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We Can’t “Hate,” and Love
If someone says “I love God,” but hates a fellow believer, that person is a liar, for if we don’t love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we can’t see? 1 John 4:20 Ouch. It’s only Day 3 of this love journey, and God has just punched me in the gut.…
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The Original “Ride or Die”
There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. John 15:13 Ride or die. It’s a term actually originated in the 1950’s by bikers referring to the fact that if they couldn’t ride, they would rather die. It is now being used to refer to relationships-those that are romantic in…
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He Does It All with Love
And do everything with love. 1 Corinthians 16:14 If you have been around a long time, there is a chance you have heard of Mother Teresa, the Catholic nun who dedicated her life to the poor and desolate in the slums of Calcutta. In her lifetime she set up orphanages, she fed the homeless, she…
Grace 'n Grounds
Encouragement Grounded in His Truth
Grace 'n Grounds 