
June 22, 2025
Sermon
Avoiding Unloving Traps — Pastor Jamie Westlake
Scripture and Resources
• Romans 7:15
15 I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate.
• Matthew 22:34-40
34 But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees with his reply, they met together to question him again.
35 One of them, an expert in religious law, tried to trap him with this question:
36 “Teacher, which is the most important commandment in the law of Moses?”
37 Jesus replied, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.”
• Matthew 11:30
30 For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light.
• Galatians 5:6
6 For when we place our faith in Christ Jesus, there is no benefit in being circumcised or being uncircumcised. What is important is faith expressing itself in love.
• John Wesley
“But although a difference in opinions or modes of worship may prevent an entire external union, yet need it prevent our union in affection? Though we can’t think alike, may we not love alike? May we not be of one heart, though we are not of one opinion? Without all doubt we may.”—
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