From Faith To Love
The Effort Required to Really Experience Jesus
2 Peter 1:5-8 [show] [5]For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, [6]and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, [7]and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. [8]For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. (ESV)
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FML: F*** My Life. One of the most celebrated, ubiquitous and loosely used terms in today’s culture to express displeasure with one’s life and consequences. Just a quick search on Twitter with the hashtag #fml, or even using Google to search for the popular FML sites where numerous people have posted their experiences (true or otherwise), one can see how many lives are truly, TRULY f***ed. Really, your lives are so f***ed, I cannot even imagine…
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During this morning’s sermon, 1 John 4:20-21 [show] [20]If anyone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. [21]And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother. (ESV)
really stuck out to me. You see, one of my close family friends is in a weird/horrible family situation which leaves a huge-ass question mark on my head (and maybe on everyone else’s). He and his siblings are Christians, and his elder siblings serve very diligently in their respective churches at their respective home areas. His siblings will willingly lay down everything in order to serve their churches (maybe with the exception of giving up something job-related)…
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