It’s SPIRIT WEEK 2013 here on GUWG. For the next few days, we’ll be taking a closer look at each fruit of the Spirit.
Today’s featured fruit: LOVE.
Why love? There’s a reason love is first on the list. At its heart, the Bible is one gigantic love-fest. In fact, God IS love. The Bible says:
Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for his friends. (John 15:13)
We continue our PRAYER-O-RAMA 2013 festivities with a little story about the painting to the right …
Two struggling art students, Albrecht Dürer and Franz Knigstein, were having trouble making ends meet. Albrecht came up with a plan: he would work to support Franz’s studies and then when Franz had sold enough art to support both of them, Albrecht would quit working and go back to school. Franz liked the idea but insisted on being the first to work.
It’s Stamp Out Bible Illiteracy Gently (SOBIG) Week here on GUWG.
Monday, we gave you a little quiz to assess your Bible literacy. Tuesday, we gave you tips on how to get more Bible into your ♥. Wednesday, we boiled the Bible down to one noun: JESUS. Thursday, it was one verb: LOVE. Yesterday, we zeroed in on the job description for every Christian.
Today’s topic: the only thing that matters on this planet, according to the Bible. Here it is in one beautiful little verse. Meditate on it. Marinate in it. Memorize it.
It’s Stamp Out Bible Illiteracy Gently (SOBIG) Week here on GUWG.
Monday, we gave you a little quiz to assess your Bible literacy. Tuesday, we gave you tips on how to get more Bibleishness into your life. Yesterday, we started looking at the BIG picture of the Bible by boiling it down to one noun: JESUS.
Today, we boil it down to one verb. Here it is:
We’re counting down the top ten Bible verses of all time, as determined by researchers with very large brains who analyze how often each verse is referenced.
Drum roll, please. Here’s the absolute #1 most popular Bible verse in the history of the universe.
You learned it in Sunday School. You’ve seen it on banners at sporting events. Maybe you’ve even got it tattooed on your biceps.
Our 40-day journey with Jesus draws nearer to its climax.
Here’s today’s question: What would you do if you knew you only had a few days to live?
Jesus spent much of his last week on earth preaching and teaching. He didn’t want anyone to miss his message.
Some of his core themes that week:
We continue our 40-day journey with Jesus to the Cross and beyond.
We’re sitting at Jesus’ feet listening to the greatest sermon ever preached: the Sermon on the Mount.
Today, we come to what a great theologian named John Stott called the “highest point of the Sermon on the Mount.” I love how he describes it:
It is both most admired and most resented, namely the attitude of total love which Christ calls us to show towards one who is evil and our enemies. Nowhere is the challenge of the Sermon greater. Nowhere is the distinctness of the Christian counter-culture more obvious. Nowhere is our need of the power of the Holy Spirit (whose first fruit is love) more compelling.
Pray through these words with all your ♥ and then go change the world:
