Important change in location! I’m leading a group to LEGACY PLACE in DEDHAM for the Son of God movie Tuesday, March 11th at 7:15pm.  I previously advertised Bellingham, but they changed their showtime to 8pm which is too late for me. No advance notice necessary.  Just come and bring a friend.  I will stay in…

  The Son of God movie is in theaters and I will be leading a study based on the movie starting Tuesday, March 11th at the United Church of Christ in Medfield.  The study is written and hosted on video by Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback  Church and author of The Purpose Driven Life. We…

Proverbs 17:9 (NLT) – Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends.   Forgiveness and love are interlaced.  Is one of your relationships waning due to unforgiveness?  

God doesn’t wait for us to get all cleaned up before He loves us.  Christ died in order to make us clean. If we love like Jesus, we must love others unconditionally – before they deserve it. Who needs your love?

Romans 8:35,37 Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love?  Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death?  No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.

1 John 4:10 (NLT) This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.

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1 Corinthians 13:6-8 (NIV) Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.  Love never fails.   I waited until after Valentine’s Day to complete our love scripture because V-Day is a single day while God’s love is to be celebrated and shared every…

It’s sometimes good to hear a fresh spin on a familiar passage.  These are the words of Eugene Peterson from The Message. 1 Corinthians 13:1-10 (MSG) – The Way of Love If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.  If I speak…

1 Corinthians 13:4-5 (NLT) Love is patient and kind.  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.   Remember while reading further into this familiar scripture that Paul is not describing romantic love, rather…