COMATOSE OR INSANE ASYLUM?
Would someone without love be as an effective teacher as a teacher who is thoroughly immersed in the Holy Spirit’s Grade-A love?
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IT’S THE WHY, NOT THE WHAT
For example, a teacher takes his teenagers through the story of David and Bathsheba. Then the teacher says, “It’s wrong to commit adultery. So don’t do it.” That’s the ‘what.’ But where’s the ‘why?’ According to our teenagers, David and Bathsheba lived way, way before cell phones were invented. So what’s the story got to do with them today?
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HUMAN FAITH OR HIS FAITH?
Through the Holy Spirit, the faith of God grows within us. As we lean on His perfect faith, so many more qualities of the Holy Spirit pour into our lives. That includes His vastly superior versions of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, humility and self-control.
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THE TRIUMPH OF SECOND PLACE
That goes completely against our self-centered will. We desire to always be first. Yet, when we live straining to be first, that’s when we encounter the most disappointment and heartache. To reach first place, we often take on heavy burdens, and the yoke becomes hard to manage.
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NO, NOT HECTOR! (PART 2)
If the Holy Spirit comes to dwell within every Believer, what’s He doing there? Is He just coming to get away from Heaven for a while, kind of like a vacation?
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NO, NOT HECTOR! (PART 1)
Everyone desires rest. We all dream about the ‘easy’ life even though our days are filled with trouble and trials. We would trade light burdens for our heavy burdens all day long.
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IS IT WISE TO LOVE EVERYONE?
A common suggestion thrown out is that we Believers are to love everyone. But is it true? If so, in what ways?
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WHY DO WE LOVE?
He takes us down the path of selfless love. Sounds scary, huh? 1 John 4:18 warns us that may happen: “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear…”
WAS PLANTING THE TREE A MISTAKE?
Because he knows better, a farmer never purposely plants waterhemp in his soybean field. Because he knows better, a trucker doesn’t fill the tank with water. Because she knows better, a wife never asks her husband to do the laundry. Why then did God plant the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the
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GOOGOLPLEX + AGAPAO = EVERYTHING!
What truly is the power of love?
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