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1 Cor 13: 3If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.  4Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not...

30If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.  Do you know anyone who is a one-upper?  Maybe you don’t you know the word, but you know the personality.  You say, “I’m sick,” and they say, “let me tell you about the time I was real sick.”  You say, “I know this...

5When he entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him, appealing to him, 6“Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, suffering terribly.” 7And he said to him, “I will come and heal him.”  Was he really that important?  A servant is the one who is sick, lying paralyzed at home, suffering terribly.  A servant.  He’s...

22When the time came for their purification according to the Law of Moses, [Mary and Joseph] brought [Jesus] up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord  The time is up.  Your presentation is due.  You’ve done your research, you know this person well.  The only thing left is to present what you know.  As much as...

1 Cor. 9: 1I want you to know, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, 2and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3and all ate the same spiritual food, 4and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the...

21Peter came up and said to [Jesus], “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” 22Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven. Jesus expects this of you.  It’s not an option.  It’s not Christian extra-credit or an...

Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.”  The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way. I used to be a die-hard Cincinnati Reds fan.  I followed 162 games a year and more in the rare years they made the playoffs.  I could name the regular starting...

1 John 3: 2Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.  There is a great temptation for us to think that the bonds that we had with them that...

“If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, 32and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” In the original building of the CIA, the last part of these verses is etched into the wall. “And you shall know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John...

“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38This is the great and first commandment. 39And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.” Who and what is depending upon...