Mar 10, 2024
Love Doesn’t Keep Score of Failures
Series: Love Better
It's natural to tally up the things that someone else has done or said to hurt or offend us. But as Troy discusses in this week's message, love keeps no record, or account, of wrongs. What’s the opposite of keeping that account? Releasing it. Letting it go. Also known as: Forgiveness.
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  • Mar 10, 2024Love Doesn’t Keep Score of Failures
    Mar 10, 2024
    Love Doesn’t Keep Score of Failures
    Series: Love Better
    It's natural to tally up the things that someone else has done or said to hurt or offend us. But as Troy discusses in this week's message, love keeps no record, or account, of wrongs. What’s the opposite of keeping that account? Releasing it. Letting it go. Also known as: Forgiveness.
  • Mar 3, 2024Love Doesn’t Take it Out On Other People
    Mar 3, 2024
    Love Doesn’t Take it Out On Other People
    Series: Love Better
    Genuine love is "not irritable" or "easily provoked." That means we do not let the things that irritate us end up provoking us and allowing our feelings to overflow into negative actions. Instead, we control the emotions that could lead us to harm someone else with our words or actions.
  • Feb 25, 2024Love is Not About Me
    Feb 25, 2024
    Love is Not About Me
    Series: Love Better
    As Troy explains (and as Arron shares in his book), love does not selfishly insist on its own way. With that in mind, the next time you have an opportunity to do something you don’t want to do, but you know it’s the right thing to do, and/or it’s good for someone else, will you do it?
  • Feb 18, 2024Love is Letting God Make You Who You Are
    Feb 18, 2024
    Love is Letting God Make You Who You Are
    Series: Love Better
    God wants to mold you, or shape you, in order to work through you in the church and in the world. But if you’re unwilling to allow God to do that, then you’re intentionally ignoring the design and purpose He has for your life.
  • Feb 4, 2024Love Makes Others More Important
    Feb 4, 2024
    Love Makes Others More Important
    Series: Love Better
    Love "does not boast," meaning that we need to avoid using lots of words to feel great by making ourselves look better than others. On the other hand, if we want to be great, in a real way, in the way that Jesus defined greatness, then we need to serve others like He did.
  • Jan 21, 2024Love is Service with a Purpose
    Jan 21, 2024
    Love is Service with a Purpose
    Series: Love Better
    As Troy shares in this week's message, intentional, random acts of kindness are one of the ways in which we can demonstrate love, in action. Or, as in the title of our series, it’s a way in which we can “Love Better.”
  • Jan 14, 2024Love Has a Long Fuse
    Jan 14, 2024
    Love Has a Long Fuse
    Series: Love Better
    “Love is patient,” as we read in 1 Corinthians 13:4. To love people better, we need a long fuse, which means the staying power to endure hard events and obnoxious people. It also means loving tolerance, in spite of people’s weaknesses and failures. And it means refusing, for a long time—even if it leads to suffering—to retaliate with anger.
  • Jan 7, 2024Love Better (The Greatest Thing You Can Do)
    Jan 7, 2024
    Love Better (The Greatest Thing You Can Do)
    Series: Love Better
    To kick off our new message series, Love Better, inspired by some ideas from the book of that name by Arron Chambers, Troy introduces the main themes of how we are to love each other as followers of Jesus, and how we are to love people who don’t follow Jesus.
  • Dec 31, 2023It’s the Keeping, Not the Making
    Dec 31, 2023
    It’s the Keeping, Not the Making
    Series: Standalone
    As we finish the year and turn our calendars over to 2024, Troy acknowledges that it’s great to make a resolution to change, and to do something better, but as he also points out, what really matters is keeping that resolution.
  • Dec 24, 2023I’m Here for You
    Dec 24, 2023
    I’m Here for You
    Series: Standalone
    For this year's Christmas message, Troy shares some of the many ways in which Jesus said, essentially, "I'm Here for You," when He came to this earth as God in the flesh.