June 24th, 2024
Read: Proverbs 19:11 NRSV Those with good sense are slow to anger, and it is their glory to overlook an offence. What do you do when you feel disrespected? Belittled? Mocked? Nobody would blame you if you rose up with righteous anger and spoke up for yourself, maybe giving the offender a piece of your […]
June 23rd, 2024
Read: 1 Corinthians 13:4-5 NRSV Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful You’ve probably heard this passage read at every wedding you’ve attended. It works well as a benediction to a relationship, […]
June 22nd, 2024
Read 1 Corinthians 13:4b-5 NLT Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. “…and it keeps no record of being wronged.” Some friends of ours have a tradition that we have adopted. Each […]
June 21st, 2024
Read 1 Corinthians 13:4b-5 NLT Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. “It is not irritable” There is a small sign that has hung in my house for the last 20ish years with […]
June 20th, 2024
Read 1 Corinthians 13:4b-5 NLT Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. “It does not demand its own way.” I like things the way I like them. When my husband I were first […]
June 19th, 2024
Read 1 Corinthians 13:4b-5 NLT Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. “… or rude.” Many years ago I found myself in a phone conversation at work with a very unhappy person. They […]
June 18th, 2024
Read 1 Corinthians 13:4b-5 NLT Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. “… or boastful or proud” None of us want to think of ourselves as boastful or proud, but the reality is […]
June 17th, 2024
Read 1 Corinthians 13:4b-5 NLT Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. “Love is not jealous” When you look up the word jealous in the dictionary, you find a whole host of other […]
June 16th, 2024
Read 1 Corinthians 13:4b-5 NLT Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. As a child I loved the Berenstain Bears books. The lovable bears with their silly antics seemed to get themselves in […]
June 15th, 2024
“Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.” 1 John 3:18 “They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.” Revelation 12:11 Today, let’s talk about […]
