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What the World Needs Now is Love
Anthony Holland
Matthew 22: 37-40 (NIV) 37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with your entire mind.38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love …
Luke 8:11-15 (NIV) 11 “This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God. 12 Those along the path are the ones who hear, and then the devil comes and takes away the word from …
Matthew 7:13-14 NIV 13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that …
2 Corinthians 5: 17-19 (NIV) 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry …
John 15:13-15 (NIV) 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not …
Matthew 26:26-28 NIV 26 While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is my body.” 27 Then he took a …
Philippians 1:6 (NRSV) I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work among you will bring it to completion by the day of Jesus Christ.
When we watch suspense movies we try …
Matthew 22:34-40 (NIV) 34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord …
Romans 12:1-8 (NIV) 1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern …
Ephesians 5:1-2 NLT Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are his dear children. 2 Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ. He loved us and offered himself as a …
Matthew 5:9 NLT God blesses those who work for peace, for they will be called the children of God.
We all have either said it or thought the way we have been treated is “not fair”. …
Jeremiah 18:1-4 NIV This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 “Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.” 3 So I went down to the potter’s house, and …
1Corinthians 9:24-25 NIV 24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. 25 Everyone who competes in the games goes into …
Jonah 1:1-3 NIV The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai: 2 “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.”3 But Jonah ran away from …
1 Peter 4:10 (NIV) God has given each of you a gift. Use it to help each other. This will show God’s loving-favor.
God has given each of us a gift or gifts. There is something …
“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me (Matthew 25:40)”.
Those who have been marginalized by society …