1 John 4:12-13

"Dear friends, if God loved us that much we also should love each other. No one has ever seen God, but if we love each other, God lives in us, and his...."

"No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us."

"We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit."

"Do you want a house for your soul? Do you ask, "What is the purchase?" It is something less than proud human nature will like to give. It is without....."

Inspirational illustration of 1 John 4:12 -- No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

Inspirational illustration of 1 John 4:12 -- No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, God lives in us and His love is made complete in us.

Inspirational illustration of 1 John 4:13 -- We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

"Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is..."

What is your fear keeping you from doing? Fear can keep us from many things, but mostly fear keeps us from life!

"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. Dear friends, since God..."

Have you felt the clean up of the Master's brush? A mom's work at writing Scripture on her daughter's wall leads to a great opportnity to learn about God's grace.

Isn't it amazing the difference one simple phone call can make? Tom Norvell talks about a phone call he received on his 57th birthday from an old friend and mentor and how special and important it was to him.

The work and presence of the Holy Spirit give us the assurance that God has made us his children. Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos to celebrate the Holy Spirit's presence in our lives that ensures we belong to the family of God.

Sometimes we are glad when such a thing happens to us! Sarah Stirman shares a chilly church experience to make the point that a mom never minds becoming the other woman when the other woman is her daughter and she sees a daddy treating her like a lady.

What legacy are you leaving with the gifts you give this time of year? While gifts are fine, we need to be leaving behind a legacy of love notes for our spouse and children and grand children.

Are you willing to give up your ledger sheet and really love? Ron Rose reminds us about the true spirit of giving and that it isn't barter love or ledger sheet giving, but generous giving like we have received from God.

What if loneliness has an invitation for a great discovery about God? Max Lucado reminds us sometimes loneliness is an invitation from God to find his perfect love that can drive out fear and chase away our isolation and fill it with love and promise.

What if loneliness has an invitation for a great discovery about God? Max Lucado reminds us that discovering God's love for us in Jesus, his perfect love, helps us overcome our feelings of loneliness, impatience, and fear.

Jesus died in the place of Barabbas. More importantly, Jesus died for you and me. Byron Ware recalls a memory from fifty years ago that shaped his life, his love, his family, and his understanding of grace, Jesus dying in the place of Barabbas and us.

Before Jesus, the word 'agape' didn't mean anything special. It was a sloppy word for 'love' pretty much like our English word 'love' as we use it today. Phil Ware reminds us where the word 'agape' really gets its meaning, in what God did for us in Jesus and that we must love God first if we are to love others properly.

What are you asking Santa to bring you for Christmas? What we want and most need at Christmas are not the kinds of things that money can buy!

"Dear Beloved, You are the Father's child! You are precious! The Father adopted you into Our — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit's — family....."

What are we known for? We must be known for our love!

"Dear Precious One, Some words are simply more important than others. In the human vocabulary that We — Father, Son, and Spirit — use, one..."

"Dear Disciple, The foundation for everything you hold dear as a Christian and as My disciple is this one fundamental truth: I came as God, in human....."

We are still a family gathered to remember Jesus, even when we gather virtually! Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos to challenge us to explore deeper biblical messages in the Lord's Supper than we often allow ourselves to consider.

Do we let love drive out our fear, or are we still holding back? Phil Ware reminds us what we know, but often don't practice; our love must have no barriers.

Because God has so graciously loved us, we can live as Jesus' agents of love and kindness in our broken world. Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in a virtual, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to call us to recognize God's great love for us as something more like, feel, think, or say, it is always demonstrated.

Jesus reminds us that real love involves our tangible demonstration of that love in acts of kindness, help, and service. Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in a virtual, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to call us into the mission Jesus gave us to be his bodily presence sent into the world just as the Father sent him.