Sermon Tone Analysis

LOVE

This is what I get to talk about tonight

Hard for me - Didn’t show much love to my wife at home right before leaving the home for CHURCH to PREACH

I am a jerk around holidays

Never mattered much to my family grown up

I get full of anxiety and sadness

I hate my birthday

I let regret or I compare myself to others around that time causing insecurity

I struggle at times to love myself

Have you ever found it hard to love yourself?

(Thats not like me)

Have you ever found it hard to love someone in general

Have you ever found it hard to love your neighbor?

Spouse, family member, boss, neighbor, friend, classmate?

My neighbor

Turned my water off in middle of summer

Came home to a dead lawn

When you experience love—true heart/mind/soul- kind of love— you not only become better able to see the larger WHY of life but you also set yourself on a pathway that leads to more health, happiness, and wisdom.

When you experience love—true heart/mind/soul-expanding love— you not only become better able to see the larger tapestry of life and better able to breathe life into the connections that matter to you, but you also set yourself on a pathway that leads to more health, happiness, and wisdom.”

YOUR BEST SELF - THATS LIKE YOU - THATS LIKE ME

YOUR BEST SELF - THATS LIKE YOU - THATS LIKE ME

The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them

Have you ever found it hard to love yourself?

(Thats not like me)

Have you ever found it hard to love someone in general

Spouse, family member, boss, neighbor, friend, classmate?

My neighbor

Turned my water off in middle of summer

we ought to help create as many names for love as well.

Came home to a dead lawn

When you experience love—true heart/mind/soul- kind of love— you not only become better able to see the larger WHY of life but you also set yourself on a pathway that leads to more health, happiness, and wisdom.

Love is connection

It’s when you hold your newborn for your first time.

It’s when you share a farewell hug with your dear friend.

Love is at it’s finest when anytime two or more people - even strangers - CONNECT over a shared experience.

Serve event

YOUR BEST SELF - THATS LIKE YOU - THATS LIKE ME

Mission trip

Watching a game/concert

Witnessing a miracle

Just as a steady diet of a wide range of fresh fruits and vegetables does make you healthier, so does a steady diet of a wide range of loving moments.”

Thats the goal: CREATE LOVING MOMENTS

Vacations, Traditions, Weddings, Graduations

In other words...

Love doesn’t just sit there, like a rock.

It has to be made…Like bread, remade all the time, made new!

Binge Reading The Bible (Week 2)

Pentateuch

Historical Books

Last week Pentateuch

Wisdom Literature

Wisdom Literature (Amanda)

The Prophets

The Prophets

The Gospels

The Gospels (Eric)

It’s different with Jesus

We have to DIG IN

The Epistles

The Epistles

Apocalyptic Literature (End Times)

Apocalyptic Literature (End Times)

The Hope for this series:

The ONE true God DEEPLY desires to be in relationship with you and demonstrates it over and over in the Bible.

The ONE true God DEEPLY desires to be in relationship with you and demonstrates it over and over in the Bible.

The Epistles (Romans to Jude) (21 Books)

Letters written to different churches and indiviuals

; in these letters, early church leaders taught how we are to live as Christian and the theological framework for Christ’s work, and gave pastoral guidance.

In these letters, early church leaders taught how we are to live as Christian and the framework for Jesus work, and gave pastoral guidance.

This section of the Bible is important because it showcases the issues people dealt with after the resurrection and includes teachings on day-to-day living, as well as the importance of our future hope.

These letters are highly personal, written to particular churches and groups dealing with specific issues in some cases; but on the whole, they consist of real life descriptions of faith, behavior, and future expectations.

The Epistles focus heavily on teaching Christian communities about proper living as disciples of Jesus, as well as how to interact with believers and unbelievers.

Proper life as a Christian is built on the idea of love; specifically, the love of God, self and neighbor.

And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.’

The second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

No other commandment is greater than these.”

And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.’

In most of the Epistles, we see a recurring theme surrounding how believers are called to use their gifts to fulfill the call of loving yourself, your neighbor, and the Lord.

In most of the Epistles, we see a recurring theme surrounding how believers are called to use their spiritual gifts (and spiritual responsibilities): they must be used in to fulfill the call of loving yourself, your neighbor, and the Lord.

The second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

No other commandment is greater than these.”

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These verses provides many ways to know what a lifestyle of love is or isn’t.

These verses encompass much of the teaching throughout the Epistles.

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing.

If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.

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.

It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.

Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless.

But love will last forever!

Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture!

But when the time of perfection comes, these partial things will become useless.

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing.