LOVE IN ACTION
“By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.” (1 John 3:16-18 ESV)
Jesus’ sacrificial death on the cross is the ultimate display of love in action. John tells us to be willing to lay down our lives for others. Then he gets specific: “But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?”
The picture shows a man putting his love into action by giving a cup of something warm to what appears to be a homeless man.
We all have opportunities to share the love of God with people in need. The person is helped, and we get to serve Jesus.
1. Where charity and love prevail,
there God is ever found;
brought here together by Christ's love,
by love we thus are bound.
2. With grateful joy and holy fear
His charity we learn;
let us with heart and mind and soul
now love God in return.
3. Forgive we now each other's faults
as we our own confess,
and let us love each other well
in Christian holiness.
4. Let strife among us be unknown;
let all contentions cease;
be God's the glory that we seek;
be ours His holy peace.
5. Let us recall that in our midst
dwells Christ, His only Son;
as members of His body joined,
we are in Him made one.
6. For love excludes no race or clan
that names the Savior’s name;
his family embraces all
whose Father is the same.
(Where Charity and Love Prevail, Lutheran Service Book #845)
Lord Jesus, thank You for Your sacrificial death. May I copy Your example of love in action and not merely in words. Amen.
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IN CHURCH SUNDAY SERVICE and Parking Lot Worship Service 9 am
both with Holy Communion
IN CHURCH WEDNESDAY SERVICE 7 pm with Holy Communion
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Pastor David Paape
“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path” (Psalm 119:105 ), is the theme for this three-year journey through the entire Old Testament once (the Psalms - twice yearly), and the New Testament twice. There will be daily readings from the O.T., Psalms and the N.T. Special days on the church calendar will be highlighted with appropriate readings. This calendar has been compiled by representatives of the Lutheran Church of Canada, the North American Lutheran Church and the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod. Please click this link for the daily reading calendar:
Then scroll down to 2020 Bible Reading Calendar and download it if you so wish. The “assigned” daily readings will appear on a daily basis in this blog. May the Lord bless your meditation upon His precious life-giving Word!
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