Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Day of Praise

We have our weekly worship and fellowship at our house tonight at 7 pm. Please join us! God always shows up, and we pray you will too! If you need directions, please Email me at pastorchrisdegreen@gmail.com. Here's today's devotion about the love of God that compels us to joyfully open our home to all of you and our community. Might I encourage all of you to consider enjoying having people come regularly to your house too?

Tues, 07/17/18, "Day of Praise"

1 Corinthians 13 - "If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."

It's just Tuesday, but there's already been enough heat and downpours and upset stomachs and messes to clean up and misunderstandings and mishaps and comedy of errors in this week that it just seemed appropriate that we'd take a lesson on love from God himself through his word. Surely, all of us can gladly learn from Holy Spirit to love like Jesus more each day so the Master himself is glorified and all who we meet are blessed!

So, spread the love! Taste the joy of doing so! And have a Happy Day with Jesus!

Praise God!


Pastor Chris
"The gospel is the story of Jesus [what God's only Son has done for us that we can't do for ourselves], spoken as a promise." - Robert Jenson

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