Let us spur one another on

24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on towards love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another – and all the more as you see the Day approaching. Heb 10:24-25 The

Are you doing the wrong things?

2 I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked people, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false. 3 You have persevered and have endured hardships for

Love abounding

9 And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, 10 so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, 11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that
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Love and truth

18 Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. 19 This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: 20 if our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than

Love in action

Dear children, let us love not with words or speech but with actions and in truth. 1 John 3:18 In John 14:15, Jesus taught his disciples that if they loved him, they would keep his commands. The evidence of our love for God is not so much in the thin
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Love and money

If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? 1 John 3:17 Sometimes (often actually) the Bible can be so direct. There’s no dodging this verse and not
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Love is God

This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. 1 John 3:16 It’s incredible how similar 1 John 3:16 and John 3:16 are. John must have been having fun whe
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Compelling love

14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. 15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again. 2 Cor 5:14

Love 'em like Jesus

We love because he first loved us. 1 John 4:19 I read a Facebook post today where my friend was talking about God and stating that he’s much happier with a particular picture of God and not at all with another common picture held out by Christi
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Devoted: Temple and home

Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts Acts 2:46 What first comes to mind when you hear the word “Church”? For a lot of us, our thinking of chu
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