Overwhelming Family

13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;[b] 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. —1 Corinthians 13

UPCOMING “FAMILY STRENGTHENING” EVENTS
HNW Thrive Marriage Conference is this weekend. You can still sign up at HNW.org/thrive
Men’s Bible Study begins on Tuesday morning, September 18th. HNW.org/men

1. Make love the

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. (vv. 1-3)

“The world has succeeded in opposing intelligence to goodness … And today any attempt to combine spirituality or moral purity with great intelligence causes widespread pangs of “cognitive dissonance.” Mother Teresa, no more than Jesus, is thought of as smart—nice, of course, but not really smart. “Smart” means good at managing how life “really” is . .” (The Divine Conspiracy. HarperCollins, 1998, p.135) —Dallas Willard

2. But the

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sort of love. (vv 4-7)

• Patient and kind.

• Does not envy or boast.

• Is not arrogant or rude.

• Does not insist on its own way.

• Is not irritable or resentful.

• Does not rejoice @ wrongdoing but w/truth.

• Bears, believes, hopes, and endures.

Why does this matter so much?

3. Because love alone

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.

How freeing to be loved by a God in Jesus, and how good to live from the blessing of that love and carry it to our neighbors, our coworkers.