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Summer Soak: Protect & Trust

August 16, 2017August 15, 2017 ~ stacyboyer ~ Leave a comment

This week's memory verse: Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us. Selah Psalm 62:8 ESV This week we look at two interconnected characteristics of love. Love bears all things, always protects. Love believes all things, always trusts, never loses faith. Love protects and trusts... … Continue reading Summer Soak: Protect & Trust

Summer Soak: Love Rejoices With the Truth

August 15, 2017August 14, 2017 ~ Carol ~ 1 Comment

Happy Tuesday! Let's gather together here on the blog or with sisters in community and discuss rejoicing in truth. Did truth sink in slow and take it's time with you? Or maybe you felt knocked around a bit? Let's take time to share our story, His story in us, and rejoice in truth. Stacy says: … Continue reading Summer Soak: Love Rejoices With the Truth

Summer Soak: Truth

August 9, 2017August 8, 2017 ~ stacyboyer ~ Leave a comment

This week's memory verse: Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart... 1Peter 1:22 ESV Love rejoices in the truth, with the truth, whenever truth wins out. We just finished talking about the unloving nature of rejoicing in evil. Love … Continue reading Summer Soak: Truth

Summer Soak: Love does Not Delight in Evil

August 8, 2017August 8, 2017 ~ stacyboyer ~ 1 Comment

Tuesday! It's back again and so are we to talk about love's aversion to sin. We hope you've gathered a sister or two to share your journey with. We've been soaking up the heart of one passage of Scripture for two months now. This leg of our journey moves us into a discussion about evil. … Continue reading Summer Soak: Love does Not Delight in Evil

Summer Soak: Evil

August 2, 2017July 31, 2017 ~ stacyboyer ~ Leave a comment

This week's memory verse: Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Romans 12:9 ESV evil... adjective 1 a: morally reprehensible: sinful, wicked b. arising from actual or imputed bad character or conduct --Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (11th ed.) Evil. Sin-full. These are thoroughly opposed to God's love. And to love evil is no … Continue reading Summer Soak: Evil

Summer Soak: Love is Not Short-tempered or Bitter

August 1, 2017August 1, 2017 ~ stacyboyer ~ Leave a comment

Yes! It's Tuesday. The time we gather with others to share how God is working in our lives. Many weeks we have been discussing what love is not, but take heart only two more discussions to go and the tide will turn. Today we'll share our experiences from our week reflecting on a short-temper and … Continue reading Summer Soak: Love is Not Short-tempered or Bitter

Summer Soak: Short-Tempered & Bitter

July 26, 2017July 24, 2017 ~ stacyboyer ~ Leave a comment

This week's memory verse: Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding,     but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly. Proverbs 14:29 ESV This week we are exploring a short-temper as an antithesis to love and the bitterness that takes root if we don't deal with our anger. Love is not provoked or irritable, is … Continue reading Summer Soak: Short-Tempered & Bitter

Summer Soak: Love is Not Selfish

July 25, 2017July 24, 2017 ~ stacyboyer ~ 1 Comment

Consider your week. How would you rate yourself when it comes to being self-less? Today, we gather to share hard truth, to speak honestly about our tendencies to be consumed with ourselves. But take heart, you are not alone. Selfishness is no respecter of persons. It affects the weak and strong, rich and poor, spiritually young … Continue reading Summer Soak: Love is Not Selfish

Summer Soak: Selfishness

July 21, 2017 ~ stacyboyer ~ Leave a comment

This week's memory verse: Direct me in the path of your commands, for there I find delight. Turn my heart toward your statutes and not toward selfish gain. Psalm 119:35-36 Love does not insist on its own way, does not seek its own, it is not self-seeking, does not demand its own way, is not … Continue reading Summer Soak: Selfishness

Summer Soak: Love is not Rude

July 18, 2017July 17, 2017 ~ stacyboyer ~ Leave a comment

Happy Tuesday! We are excited to gather with sisters at our shop and here on the blog. Did you catch yourself being rude this week? Maybe someone was rude to you? Either way, love is never rude in behavior or speech. Love is not disrespectful. A short internet search for the opposite of rude includes … Continue reading Summer Soak: Love is not Rude

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This Week’s Memory Verse

I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

Psalm 139:14

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If you must boast, boast in the One who does things like this! "Let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me..." Jeremiah 9:24 #sistertalkfaith #boastinHim When I shared my frustration with those who list all the bad character traits of an individual and then add the qualifier, "But they're a good person," because there are no good people, he told me, "That's a terrible attitude!" But it wasn't my attitude I was sharing -- it's God's truth. There are no good people. Only God is good. Jesus said so, it must be true (Mark 10:18, Luke 18:19). The prophet Isaiah, hundreds of years before, said: "We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment" (Isaiah 64:6). Even when we do what looks good, it is filthy! So I hear in his response to truth a boastful attitude, a blindness to badness: "Why try to be good if we are just bad?" And I think most try because deep down somewhere they know they are bad, it's just self-pride which keeps them from embracing all their broken bad. He came for the sin-sick, not the ones who see themselves as good (Mark 2:16-17), and He said there is more rejoicing in heaven over the sinner who repents than all the righteous who don't need to (Luke 15:7). There just seems to be no room in heaven for those who boast in their goodness. He came to be broken so we could be healed. So, yes, I boast only in Him, knowing no good in me. "Let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth" (Jeremiah 9:24). He practiced His love, justice, and righteousness in the earth by breaking Himself on a cross for those who know they are broken through and through. #sistertalkfaith #nogoodpeopleallowed #boastin Him What's the big deal... it's just a t-shirt? But for me it is so much more. You see, this journey began over a decade ago and it has come full circle in ways I never imagined. It all began with a t-shirt idea (not this one) which birthed a friendship and unimaginable spiritual growth. I didn't know. Had no idea what God was doing and most days I still don't. I didn't know the lessons we learned would somehow become words on a screen. It never crossed my mind way back when that someday those words would be the ones we teach. So yes, it is a t-shirt. But let me tell you it is so much more. It's a story. The story of two women, growing... struggling... learning to love God with everything they have. A revealing of what God had in store for us all along. Hebrews tells us faith is being sure of what you hope for and certain of what you do not see. I didn't see it coming, but oh the joy that floods my soul. #sistertalkfaith.com #joyjoyjoyjoydowninmyheart We can hardly contain ourselves... #sistertalkfaith Love is kind... 1Cointhians 13:4. I've noticed something changed in me. Something I haven't felt before when it comes to getting involved. No fear! Over the past month I've had an opportunity or two to dole out unexpected kindness. First to the itty bitty kitty standing in the dark street. Then to a run away toddler escaped from his grandma. In both instances, there was no sense of fear in the rescues. No fear of stray cat diseases or what she would do to the house. No fear of what would happen to the toddler in the street if I couldn't run fast enough. No fear of whether I'm doing the right thing. No fear. It may sound strange to you but fear and doubt used to rule my world. But I've grown in His love. I've become confident of His kindness toward me. So now I find myself pouring out kindness on the lost without one ounce of fear of what it will cost me. There is no fear in being kind because there is no fear in love (1John 4:18). #nofear #sistertalkfaith #beingkind #Godslove We're soaking in God's word this summer through our series on love. Join us each Tuesday at noon as we gather to share about love. Or check out sistertalkfaith.com and gather a group at a time that works for you. #summersoak #picturethisjville #sistertalkfaith #loveispatient
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