“This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.” Jesus (John 15:12) Jesus command for us to love others as He loves us does not negate the 2 greatest commands…it reinforces them…and can’t be done without first obeying them! We continue with another "one another" and surprise, surprise and just as promised last week... it is "love one another" and we find it as Jesus continues with His teaching, encouraging and challenging His disciples in the Upper Room. This... Read More
January 12, 2023
How Do We “One Another” One Another?
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"One Anothers" Christ never promised His commands would be easy…simply that they would be good and if we love Him we will obey them (John 13:34-35)! How can you be both salty and at peace with others? By trusting Him!"One Another" Our first "One Another" is found in Mark 9:50 where Jesus is giving some pretty stern warnings to His disciples after they questioned someone casting out demons in Jesus' name because the person wasn't following them (in their group or church so to speak).... Read More
January 5, 2023
Loving Others
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‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ (Matthew 22:39) Over the past year plus, leading up to the CHRISTmas and New Year Holidays we shared 2 series in line with the 2 Greatest Commands in Scripture (Mark 12:29-31)…1) Worship God alone and love Him with your entire being, and; 2) love others as you love yourself. Knowing God, worshiping Him alone and loving Him with all we are is the 1st and Greatest Command...and one we spend very little time in our lives and churches... Read More
December 29, 2022
What’s in Your Future?
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Happy New Year – Hope, Peace, Joy and Love to You in Christ! If you want to know the hope, peace, joy and love of Christ today, into the New Year and throughout your life, begin by asking and answering this question, “What’s your focus?” In 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, Paul states by The Holy Spirit, “Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer person is decaying, yet our inner person is being renewed day by day. For our momentary, light affliction is producing... Read More
December 15, 2022
The CHRISTmas Blessing
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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:1 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14 Have this attitude in yourselves, which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form... Read More