Sunday Devotional - Christian Love »
Posted by: brettodactyl 2 months agoHave you ever sat back and thought about what it really means to love the way a Christian is supposed to love? There's more to it than you may think. It's not just about a feeling, it's about your actions.
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brettodactyl2 months ago
First, I'd like to post this prayer I came across during my research today. My personal prayer will follow that.
Prayer of St. Richard of Chichester
Thanks be to thee, my Lord Jesus Christ,
For all the benefits thou hast won for me,
For all the pains and insults thou hast borne for me.
O most merciful Redeemer, Friend, and Brother,
May I know thee more clearly,
Love thee more dearly,
And follow thee more nearly:
For ever and ever.
--St. Richard Chichester (1197-1253)
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Goppy2 months ago
Thanks for inviting me to this thread, brett!
I think it's one of your best yet!
I liek it very much because it touches upon so much of what I believe Christianity is all about.
You know, Christianity is such a GREAT Faith. But liek all faiths, there are those who seek to use the RELIGION to further POLITICAL goals.
An extreme example of this can be found in the Jihadists. But of course, we in this country have our own 'trimmed down' version.
But the essential Christianity is quite simple, elegant, and pure. And if adhered to, brings great joy and serenity.
And I LOVE the hypothetical questions you raised.
"" Would you want your wife to commit adultery? Would you want someone to murder you or to murder someone you love? Would you want someone to steal from you, lie to you, covet your possessions? ""
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Goppy2 months ago
Thanks for inviting me to this thread, brett!
I think it's one of your best yet!
I liek it very much because it touches upon so much of what I believe Christianity is all about.
You know, Christianity is such a GREAT Faith. But liek all faiths, there are those who seek to use the RELIGION to further POLITICAL goals.
An extreme example of this can be found in the Jihadists. But of course, we in this country have our own 'trimmed down' version.
But the essential Christianity is quite simple, elegant, and pure. And if adhered to, brings great joy and serenity.
And I LOVE the hypothetical questions raised in the artical.
"" Would you want your wife to commit adultery? Would you want someone to murder you or to murder someone you love? Would you want someone to steal from you, lie to you, covet your possessions? ""
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Sorry if this is a duplicate ... I waited 5 minutes and nothing appeared.
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Goppy2 months ago
For instance, I believe that when we choose to expand off shore drilling rather than conserving resources ... we are saying ... "I don't care about the conditions of the planet that our children will endure. - I would rather drive a really big vehicle because ... well, simply because it IS big."
And when we defend CEO's voting themselves HUGE stock options and paydays ... while these Corporate Leaders make drastic employment cutbacks and deny health care benefits ... we are saying "I care only about making sure that the Wealthy get MORE Wealthy and extract every bit of disposable income from the Middle Class as possible in a grand Transfer of Wealth scheme."
And when we defend arbitrary warfare ... it's liek we are saying "War should always be used as a option of first resort - because warfare ensures that our nation is a nation of aggression - and not of peace."
Anyway ... those are the values I live by ... and that Jesus taught.
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brettodactyl2 months ago
Heavenly Father,
You are holy and merciful, and You have blessed myself and others in the way that You have allowed the time of devotion to grow so much since we began gathering in this way. People, believers and non-believers alike, have taken notice, and I am thankful that they are being continually exposed to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
May Your Holy Spirit guide us in all our actions and help us to show Christian love wherever we may go. May we demonstrate true Christian virtue whether we are discussing politics, news, or anything else, and not just when we are specifically gathered to worship You. Help us to better understand the people we disagree with and to not always be so stubborn and argumentative, because, above all, You are God, and Christ is the one who died for us; nothing is more important than that.
In Jesus' name,
Amen
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Pupi2 months ago
Amen!
Excellent Devotion as always, Brett. You bless us all richly with your work for the Father. Again, I thank you.
Father God,
I thank You for Brothers and Sisters like Brett and others who love to share Your love, Your truth, and Your Word. Bless them as wonderfully as they have blessed us, I pray.
And, as the Word of the Lord said in this Devotional lesson, let us all love each other in all ways, through the Power of the Holy Spirit who dwells within us. Like the song says,
""Make us One, Lord, Make us One.
Holy Spirit, Make us One.
Let Your love flow so the world will know
We are One in You.""
Yes, Lord Jesus, make us One in You.
Amen
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texangelwings2 months ago
"Christian love is giving to others those things that you would want them to give you if you were in their situation -- and it's doing so even if they can't pay you back. In fact, it's doing so especially if they can't pay you back! Christian love is respect for others. It's mercy. It's charity." This paragraph states what I just told a friend I was talking to yesterday. I told her that I do for others as I would want them to do for me, only I do not expect the same in return! It is my own conscience that I must live with, not anyone elses! Respecting others is paramount in my life. It has become a part of me and who I am!
Thank you Brett, very good Devotional and prayer!
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CactusAnnie2 months ago
1 Corinthians 13
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
4 Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Cont.
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CactusAnnie2 months ago
8 Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13 And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
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Endoscopy2 months ago
Thanks for this message. Our assistant pastor gave a message along these lines a couple of weeks ago. He mentioned that the verse where the dead are being judged and some come to Jesus and say master look at what we did in your name. And Jesus says "Begone, I never knew you."
He said that this subject is why that answer from Jesus. They were not really Christians doing it out of love and were doing it for show. God knows our heart.
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Wolfie20072 months ago
Thanks again Brett, I look forward to your devotionals every week. Go about your work with a prayer in your heart and do your best and God will know.
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antibrainwasher2 months ago
Why isn't it heavenly mother, or heavenly sister. Why always the father thing. And what exactly is heavenly mean? What is this heaven? Is it the christian golf and country club? Tee it up with Hogan and teenage Jesus?
I get this picture of charleton heston in his flowing robes floating on a cloud clutching a staff and speaking with massive reverb effects. The vengeful father, mean murdering sob of a god, kind of an ansestor of Zeus.
You all believe in Zeus, right? What about all those greeks and romans who prayed to Zeus before charleton heston and his only begotten son, the irish lookin baby half jew/half god jesus set the town of Nazereth on fire. Except Nazereth didn't exist 2000 years ago. No archeological records exist past 500 AD. But I regress, back to the point, If you don't believe in the holy Zeus, god of the thunderbolts and his cadre of badarse gods, like posiedon or mercury, or his half man/half god hercules, then yalll are Atheists.
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