Love: From a Pure Heart, Clear Conscience, Enduring Faith

A faith that doesn't die thing is part of my responsibility and your responsibility. That's why this church is so important. Let me tactfully try to say that one hour a week coming to church probably isn't enough to keep faith alive when the detail of an ugly world confronts us, When the detail of being tired hits us. When the detail of being sick confronts us. When the story of abuse and trespassing hits us head on. [01:17:14] (42 seconds)  #KeepFaithAlive

Love comes as a result of a pure heart and a good conscience. My conscience was better that day after god and I had a talk about what a wretch I was. Forgiveness is a great thing. Forgiveness is a beautiful, beautiful experience. The end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart, which only god can give you, out of a good conscience, which is only available as you're honest with yourself and you and god have some conversations about it, and a faith that doesn't die. [01:15:17] (44 seconds)  #ForgivenessHeals

The end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart, a good conscience, and a faith that doesn't die. Wow. There's three ingredients that need to be active in my life in order for me to be responsive to to everything with love. A pure heart, a clear conscience, and faith that doesn't die. I don't have any of those three. Maybe that's why love sometimes isn't part of my life. [01:09:31] (40 seconds)  #PureHeartClearConscience

Lots of times I try to discipline myself to overcome it and it doesn't work. A lot of times I try to educate myself to overcome it and I'm not that smart. The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life. I need God to deal with my sin. I need to understand that my sin basically is a confrontation with him, and I do something about that. And the forgiveness that I find because of Jesus Christ is the resolution to that. [01:10:44] (41 seconds)  #NeedGodsGrace

So I decided I would embark on a bit of a new endeavor and I'd pick a verse or a part of scripture and for several days in a row, would rewrite it in my own words and then compare it to scripture. What a fantastic enterprise. If you wanna learn something about yourself and about god, take some scripture and rewrite it in your own words and then compare it to scripture and do that for several days in a row. [01:05:15] (33 seconds)  #ScriptureInYourWords

If you and I could take this book, take your bible and fully encase it into our lives, assimilate it into how we think, how we react, what we believe. If it could be somehow, poured into our mind and our heart and our gizzard, what would the result be? What would the end result be? [00:58:29] (37 seconds)  #LiveTheBible

And there are those times in life when life is okay, but it should be superior if I had only learned that the end of the commandment is love, regardless of what's going on. Now your life like mine is probably filled with those occasions when frustration and discouragement and disappointment kinda impact how it is you react to somebody or react even to yourself. The end of the commandment is something other than love. What do we do about that? [01:08:41] (45 seconds)  #ChooseLoveAlways

The thought that crossed my mind at that time is, Chuck, you don't need to know more scripture. You don't even put to work the scripture you already know. The issue in Christian life is not how many verses you memorize. The issue is how have you let will the verses that you know impact how you live. And I had to admit that, that thought was right. [01:04:49] (26 seconds)  #LiveWhatYouKnow