A daily, Bible-based perspective of hope,
encouragement and exhortation.
Daily
Encouragement on
Friday, April 12,
2019
Yesterday
morning we passed this flowering tree on the Strasburg
Pike.
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to enlarge)
"Above
All"
Message
summary: May
God help each of us to
live in the power of
God's love and
generously communicate
that love to those
nearby!
Listen to our message on your audio player.
"Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers a multitude of sins" (1 Peter 4:8).
For the last several years we have attended a church with an unusual distinction. Calvary Church was founded in 1937 and has had only five senior pastors, including the current one. All four previous pastors completed the task worthy of honor. Two are now deceased.
Listen to our message on your audio player.
"Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers a multitude of sins" (1 Peter 4:8).
For the last several years we have attended a church with an unusual distinction. Calvary Church was founded in 1937 and has had only five senior pastors, including the current one. All four previous pastors completed the task worthy of honor. Two are now deceased.
Two are still
living. One, Eric
Crichton, began pastoral
service at the church as
the second pastor in
1964 and served till
1987. He recently
celebrated his 98th
birthday and still
teaches a Sunday School
class in the church! The
other one, Johnny
Miller, served as senior
pastor from 1999-2009
and now lives in South
Carolina.
Both were honored this past Sunday with Johnny Miller giving an exhortation through video from South Carolina. We were both blessed by his words so we print them below because they not only blessed the congregation he was addressing but they will bless you as well:
Both were honored this past Sunday with Johnny Miller giving an exhortation through video from South Carolina. We were both blessed by his words so we print them below because they not only blessed the congregation he was addressing but they will bless you as well:
I want to
encourage you, exhort
you, plead with you to
continue in love. That's
really the highest
calling we have and, as
I have aged and as my
Parkinson's Disease has
increased, there are so
many things that I
cannot do that I used to
do. But I realize that
the one thing that I can
do for which there is no
limit is to exhibit the
love of Christ to people
that I meet. And I feel
that's my highest
calling in this day.
It's to live in love and
it's to exhibit God's
love to people so that
they can actually
experience at least a
portion of the love of
God. And if God will
allow me to continue to
do that then there's
reason to continue to
live. (Video
here)
Let us consider today's verse. "Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers a multitude of sins." The Apostle Peter's call was initially issued to persecuted believers whom he had called "God's elect, strangers in the world" in the very first verse of the epistle.
Now, through the Holy Scriptures, believers of all time can still be described as "God's elect, strangers in the world".
"Above all, love each other deeply." Oh, how this command is greatly neglected but wholly needed in every sphere of life; in marriages, families, churches, communities, nations and of course all over the world.
"Because love covers a multitude of sins." Love still covers and overpowers sin. No matter the generation nor the depth of sin, foundationally the love of God expressed in Christ's death on the cross, covers our sin.
That same power of love has not diminished one bit and is being expressed all over the world today. May God help each of us to live in the power of God's love and generously communicate that love to those nearby, no matter what our physical limitations may be!
Be encouraged today,
Stephen & Brooksyne Weber
Daily
prayer:
Father, we bow
in prayer before
You today, and
ask that You, in
Your great glory
give us the
power to be
strong inwardly
through Your
Spirit. We pray
that Christ will
live in our
hearts by faith
and that our
lives will be
strong in love
and be built on
love. And we
pray that we
will have the
power to accept
the greatness of
Christ's love –
how wide and how
long and how
high and how
deep that love
is; it is
measureless, and
boundless,
covering a
multitude of
sins. Help us to
communicate it
often to those
we encounter
from day to day.
In the name of
Jesus we pray.
Amen.Photos
from our
chaplaincy
role in
various
companies
Phil
leading Smucker
Home Improvement
safety meeting.
Tin
from Vietnam and
Dedan from Kenya
work well
together as
machinists at
Vallorbs.
Mario
and his wife
Janet, both from
Costa Rica, sit
right beside
each other
during lunch at
Val-Co.
For
lunch we dined
outside and
enjoyed an arepa
from Chellas
Arepa Kitchen.
Today's
Suggested
Music and Supplemental Resources
"Love,
Love, Love" Video
Gordon Mote
"Love Is The Golden Rule" Video Gordon Mote
"Safe in the Arms of Jesus" Video Michael O'Brien (Suggested by one of our readers.) This hymn was written in 1868 by Fanny Crosby. In 1859 Fanny gave birth to a child who died in infancy. Though she never talked about her tremendous loss to others, many consider that this song was written as a result of her tragic loss. During her lifetime, "Safe in the Arms of Jesus" was among the most widely sung of Fanny's hymns. She claimed it was written for the bereaved, especially for mothers who had lost children. Often, while comforting a grief-stricken mother, Fanny would say to her, "Remember, my dear, your darling cherub is safe in the arms of Jesus." (Source: Robert Morgan "Then Sings My Soul")
"Come to Jesus (Reconciliation Hymn)" Video People of the Earth
"Love Is The Golden Rule" Video Gordon Mote
"Safe in the Arms of Jesus" Video Michael O'Brien (Suggested by one of our readers.) This hymn was written in 1868 by Fanny Crosby. In 1859 Fanny gave birth to a child who died in infancy. Though she never talked about her tremendous loss to others, many consider that this song was written as a result of her tragic loss. During her lifetime, "Safe in the Arms of Jesus" was among the most widely sung of Fanny's hymns. She claimed it was written for the bereaved, especially for mothers who had lost children. Often, while comforting a grief-stricken mother, Fanny would say to her, "Remember, my dear, your darling cherub is safe in the arms of Jesus." (Source: Robert Morgan "Then Sings My Soul")
"Come to Jesus (Reconciliation Hymn)" Video People of the Earth
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