Announcements for August 13th, 2023
What’s Coming Up!
Freedom 201 Class | 16th, 23rd and 30th (Register here)
Joy Club | August 14th (Find out more)
Joy Club Levelland | August 16th (Find out more)
Growth Track | August 16th (Register here)
YTH Night | August 23rd (Find out more)
Community Group Fair | August 27th (Find out more)
YA Night | August 29th (Find out more)
Community Group Backyard Picnic | August 30th (Find out more)
Back to Basics: Why LOVE?
For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. —Ephesians 3:14-19 (NIV)
Love
…from God
God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. —1John 4:16 (NLT)
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. —1 Corinthians 3:4-7 (NLT)
I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit. Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong. —Look at vs. 16-17 (NLT)
Love
…as Christ
Love
…you are called to show
to our world!
And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God. —Ephesians 3:18-19 (NLT)
My response is to get down on my knees before the Father, this magnificent Father who parcels out all heaven and earth. I ask him to strengthen you by his Spirit—not a brute strength but a glorious inner strength—that Christ will live in you as you open the door and invite him in. And I ask him that with both feet planted firmly on love, you’ll be able to take in with all followers of Jesus the extravagant dimensions of Christ’s love. Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights! Live full lives, full in the fullness of God. —Ephesians 3:14-19 (The Message)