Hope’s Name
(Jeremiah 29:11 NLT) For I know the plans I have for you,” says the LORD. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. (John 5:5-9 NLT) One of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years. When Jesus...Current Podcast
Love’s Pursuit
(1 Corinthians 13:13 NLT) Three things will last forever–faith, hope, and love–and the greatest of these is love.
(1 Corinthians 13:13 MSG) ‘But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.’
(1 Corinthians 13:12a NLT) Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. . . .
(1 Corinthians 13:12b NLT) . . . All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.
(1 John 4:8 NLT) But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
(1 John 4:17 NLT) And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. . . .
√ He loves us PERFECTLY.
(Romans 5:8 NLT) But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.
√ He loves us POWERFULLY.
(1 Corinthians 6:14 NIV) By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also.
√ He loves us PERMANENTLY.
(Romans 8:35-39 NLT) Can anything separate us from Christ’s love? . . .No power in the sky above or in the earth below–indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.
