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Agape reciprocated God’s love has always been mutually enjoyed – it looks for a resting place and yearns for reciprocation. His love is only “complete” when those he’s reaching out to reach back. Let’s review what John said about the Singer’s song sung to us and sung by us back to him. “If anyone obeys …
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[If you haven't read part 1, you might want to take a couple minutes to do so.] The Lord your God is with you. He is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing. Zephaniah 3:17 Agape received: So, …
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If anyone obeys his Word, God’s love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him: Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did. 1 John 2:5 If we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. 1 John …
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4 Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you yourself will be just like him. 5 Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes. Proverbs 26:4-5 “I don’t believe in any of that Jesus stuff. It, and all religion, is made up by people …
In his remarkable book, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, Donald Miller suggested that the Creator wrote us into his story along with sunsets and rainstorms as though to say, “Enjoy your place in my story. The beauty of it means you matter, and you can create within it even as I have created …
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