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Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” This section of Matthew beginning…

Let us pray…Gracious and loving God, as we come before you this day, we come with love in our hearts for all that our mothers and those who have been like a mom to us have done for us throughout our lives. But, we also come to remember that your love for these women and others who have loved us so much…

Good morning, Gateway Chapel! Scripture #1 Prayer What is love? Great song by your favorite Trinidadian German Eurodance band Haddaway. What pictures, images, or people come to your mind when you think of the word love? Love is something even young children understand to a degree. I remember when I was…

Intro Nature and effect. Two ways to perceive a thing. The nature of a thing can be described in terms that are appropriate to it. The effect is, by necessity, only partially about the thing we describe. If we described the nature of a pillow, we could use words like down, fluffy, hard, flat, smelly,…

Introduction Love is one of those things that we know exactly what it means…until we have to define it. Love is hard to define One author called the word love an “exceedingly ambiguous term”. We would have to agree: we love our favorite food and we love the members of our family, but those two things…

Introduction : What’s the worst thing you have ever done before? Think of that one thing that you never want anyone to know about. The thing you did that you want to take to the grave with you? Can it be forgiven? Even more, think for a minute of the worst thing you think a person can do. We always have…

Does your life show you love God and others?

What is love? Poets, philosophers, theologians and artists have attempted for a very long time to define that four letter word. Song writers have, too. Did you know that more songs have been written about love than any other topic in the world? Here’s a few of the songs about love. The Partridge family…

Luke 1:39-55 On this Christmas morning, we gather together to thank the Lord for coming as a babe so many years ago. We have looked at the Advent Candles these last four weeks. We started with the first candle representing Hope. We saw the hope that we have in the coming of our Messiah. In the second…

Q: Why did the turkey cross the road? A: To prove it wasn’t a chicken. Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? A: To show the squirrel it could be done. Chickens are always funny- right? Well, they are always funny until you try and answer a particular question about them. Which came first- the chicken…

I titled the message “Tough Love”, but in the case of our text this morning, tough love does not mean what people usually mean by it. I’ve had a love/hate relationship with the terminology Tough Love. This is because often times what people mean by tough love is not really love at all. What many people…

Shopping Lists I’ve often found it strange that when I walk around a supermarket holding a shopping list, I have on occasion had people remark - oh, a shopping list, now that’s a good idea. I’m usually thinking the comments are said a bit tongue-in-cheek, probably because they keep forgetting to write…

8 Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. 9 For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor…

We’ve been talking about values to live by. I remember when I used to do youth ministry in schools. We would do these values exercises. We would give you a scenerio that puts you in a rubber raft with a friend… a set of flares… enough food for a week… 5 gallons of water… You can’t make it to land without…

(Farmer story) There were once two old farmers. They’re neighbors, but they have a feud that’s been running for a few years. They haven’t even spoken to each other in that time. The whole thing got started over a cat. The cat was a stray, but both of these farmers began feeding the cat and claimed it…

Cheesesteaks, the Liberty Bell, Rocky Balboa, the Eagles, the Phillies, the 76ers, Cream Cheese. Can you guess what we’re going to be studying this morning? You’ve guessed it. We’re going to talk about philadelphia. Philadelphia, but not the city in Pennsylvania. However, the city of Philadelphia can…

Recap In 1 John chapter 1, John introduced a significant problem and a glorious possibility. The problem is that God is light and you and I live in darkness. The possibility is that, if we confess our sins, Jesus will forgive and cleanse us, and we will be able to have fellowship with God and with God’s…

The mission of the church is centered in God’s love for the world; our connection to the love of God frames our actions as followers of Jesus.

We’ve come to the final chapter of the letter of Hebrews… 2 more weeks after today... This chapter is not directly connected to the main point of the letter, but it is also not completely disconnected either... The final exhortations in chapter 13 are given to further help us understand how we are to…

Morning 21 May 2023

It is a joy to be back with you today. Preaching God’s word. I have enjoyed our study on the Holy Spirit, and I have appreciated these few weeks off to refresh while learning from my brothers, who preached God’s word to us faithfully. We return now to our study of first Corinthians If you remember with…

Shoulds I had the most wonderful start to my day on Friday. I woke up with a song in my head. Take it easy easy God already loves you completely Take it easy easy Rest in the shade of His wing And instead of finding my glasses - which is my usual habit. I decided not to. Instead of plugging in my ear-pods…

Is it important? If something should be important to us that is not, then we must see the importance. We must be convinced that it is important. And, if it is important, then we probably will be convinced. This seems to be what Paul is doing here - convincing his readers of the importance of loving others.…

Review: 1-3 rebuke from Paul about the lack of love with elevation of spiritual gifts 4: first three aspects of love: love long suffers, long suffers with kindness and love is content #4 Be Humble 1 Corinthians 13:4–5 (NASB95) 4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and…