Love is Longsuffering
Love is longsuffering because it is 1) A Quality of God, 2) Key to Relationships, 3) Curtails Selfishness. Each should be able to understand how being longsuffering will help us to love God and one another.
Tag: Love
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“But to Love One Another”
In this lesson we will compare and contrast the purposes and expectations of man in relationships with the purposes and expectations of God. We will note what humans construct when it comes to relationships vs. what God creates and then see how liberating God’s way is. I hope that each hearer will understand how God’s design of loving one another encapsulates the whole of human relationships without the need for additional human constructions.
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In the Beginning, God
The Bible begins, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Genesis 1:1). The universe had a beginning, and the only rational explanation for it is God.
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“A Beautiful Life”
In this lesson we will study the song “A Beautiful Life.” This song emphasizes that the true beauty of the Christian is in 1) serving others 2) pure living, 3) recognizing our mortality. Each hearer should understand that life is fleeting and we need to make the most of every day to do good to others.
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Football and The Church
My kids do not love football because they did not spend time playing it. The same is true of God, the church, and the Bible. We must spend time pursuing godly values.
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Forbearing and Forgiving One Another
In this lesson we will examine three practical ways in which we can make it easy to forbear and forgive one another. The objective of this lesson is to seek to practice forbearance and forgiveness of one another in our lives.
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Love Good and Hate Evil (Psalm 5)
The psalm expresses love for good and hatred for evil by his 1) Petition, 2) Opposition, 3) Position, 4) Condemnation, 5) Exaltation. Each listener should share the Psalmists attitudes toward good and evil.
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Living in a Rubber Room (Part 3)
Is love worth the risk? Rejecting the possibility of having love in our life is just another “rubber room,” a place where we will be protected from emotional pain, but at the loss of real relationships, which everyone actually desires most in this world. When we refuse to love others, we also fall into a profound self-absorption, a selfishness from which we will never recover. But to learn to love, we must risk suffering, and to risk suffering, we need a world that is not safe, sanitized, and preventative of all harm.
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Living in a Rubber Room (Part 2)
Why did God make us free? Freedom is necessary to love (Galatians 5:13). A computer can be programmed to say "I love you," but real love requires a free choice.
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“I have performed the commandment of the Lord!”
King Saul claimed, "I have performed the commandment of the Lord" (1 Samuel 15:13), but obeyed only partly. Jesus wants us to obey all His words, not just some.
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Spiritual Surgery
Pride, anger, envy, lust, greed, sloth, and gluttony cause great spiritual pain. Many avoid the needed spiritual surgery because they love darkness (John 3:19).
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“Love is Love” – Is love the basis of marriage?
Is love the basis of marriage? Love is a consequence of a God-based marriage, not its foundation. God is love, but love is not God, and making it so is idolatry.
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Grumpy Cat
Grumpy Cat may be funny, but a grumpy lifestyle is contrary to God's word. The Christian's life should be marked by joy (Philippians 4:4) and a cheerful disposition.
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Evolution Fail
A fossil of a snake with limbs fits Genesis 3:14, yet scientists still deny what the Bible says about creation. Evolution fails because life does not come from non-life.
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What is Love? – answered
In this lesson we will seek to answer the question “What is love?” We will note: 1) its origins in God, 2) that it is a free act, 3) its currency in relationships, 4) that it is a gift. We seek to learn more about the nature and character of love.
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VICTORY
What would have happened had individuals moped around looking depressed and upset at such news?
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Targeting
Football's targeting rule protects players from themselves. God's commands protect us too. If we ignore them, we face consequences now and eternally (Matthew 7:13-14).
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How to Have a Great Marriage
In this lesson, we will discuss six ways to have a great marriage: 1) Put God First, 2) Love One Another, 3) Communicate, 4) Be Intimate, 5) Have Children, 6) Be Faithful. Each hearer should learn what the Bible teaches about having a great marriage and be motivated to live according to God’s word.
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Muscle Memory
We train our brain to remember how to do things again and again. I’m glad I don’t every day have to learn again how to walk, or eat, or drink, or talk, etc. We have learned these things and now know how to do them without thinking.
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What is Easier?
The point of Jesus’ words was to show by miracle that He had authority.
