God’s Love For Us

We know that God has adopted us into his family and we can go to him any time and call him Abba Daddy. Why did he adopt us? This week let’s read one of many of God’s love notes to us, Ephesians Chapter 1, each day use a different version and write down what the

What Love Says About Us

Last week in 1 Corinthians 13 we saw that our actions and words are useless if there is no love behind them. What else does love have to say about us? Monday – John 13:34-35 Tuesday – 1 John 4:7 Wednesday – 1 John 4:8 Thursday – Proverbs 17:17 Friday – Romans 13:8 Saturday –

Love Has Everything To Do With It

You’ve heard the song, “What’s Love Got To Do With It?” According to 1 Corinthians 13 love has has everything to do with it. Read each section in several different versions like, ESV, AMP, NLT, NKJV, Message, or which ever versions you want to look them up in. Then write down what you find out

The Love Connection

We all know 1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV, “So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” This week let’s look at why LOVE is the greatest of these. We have seen from looking at hope and faith that love is connected, intertwined with them. It is as if

Reflection

A reflection isn’t perfect. Other things can get in the way and distort it. Unless the lake is completely still you can’t get a mirror image of the trees and sky. That image is gone once the wind picks up or a stone is thrown into it. When we look into the mirror the reflection

Love isn’t… Love is…

Ever taken a daisy and pulled off the petals one at a time while saying, “He loves me. He loves me not…”? In 1 Corinthians 13, Paul starts out with two lists. What love isn’t and what love is. Love isn’t being the most eloquent speaker or having a voice that people enjoy listening to, without

Reading Plan for Love Week 2

How could we look at love without taking a look at 1 Corinthians 13? What is your favorite verse and why? Leave it in a comment, Sunday.

Living In Love

I love cut flowers, the only problem with them is they don’t last forever. No matter what you do, 7-Up, aspirin, cut the stem on a diagonal … they will eventually fade and wilt. Because they are no longer connected to their true source of nourishment. Likewise with us, if we are not connected, grafted, abiding …

Reading Plan for Love Week 1

When the Old Testament was translated into Greek, the Greek Septuagint, the Hebrew word chesed was interpreted as agape. I have learned a lot about the word chesed for a good friend Andy Lee. You can find her at Words by Andy Lee or check out her morning Facebook Live devotionals at Andy Lee. She uses the Key-Word Bible,

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Look around. All you see in this world today in division. Countries are in civil war. People turning against each other of stupid stuff. It seems that to be arguing is the in thing. Even if what they say or do makes them look stupid, they do it anyways just because of they disagree with