Encourage One Another
There are things we are supposed to do every day. Brush your teeth. Take whatever medicine the doctor told you to take, since the bottle does not say to take it when you feel like it. Feed the dog, though our dogs handle that reminder themselves. None of it is particularly interesting. And with most of it, missing one day does not seem to cost much on the day you miss it, which is exactly what makes it easy to drop. The bill arrives later, and by then it is not one day’s worth. Hebrews puts “encourage one another” on…
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Bear One Another’s Burdens
Introduction For most of my career, I have worked around very large machinery. A centrifugal compressor package may weigh seventy, a hundred, a hundred and twenty tons. Before it can be installed, somebody has to figure out how to get it off the truck and onto its foundation without dropping it or damaging it with the lifting straps. So we put lifting lugs on the package. They may not be the most impressive part of the machine. Nobody buys a compressor because the lifting lugs are attractive. Once the equipment is installed, they may never be used again. On one…
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Serve One Another
I. Free to Serve We are working our way through seven “one another” commands. We began with “love one another,” because love is the command behind all the others, and then we looked at “accept one another” – love at the front door. Still ahead of us are bearing one another’s burdens, encouraging one another, forgiving one another, and praying for one another. Today is “serve one another” – love holding a towel. I have a story about that, although it is not one where I come out looking particularly good. One of my closest friends, Sean, once asked me…
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Accept One Another
Romans 15:7 · “One Another” Series, Lesson 2 The Command I. Love Comes to the Front Door Let me begin by telling a story. Many years ago, when I was still in college, I attended my first church retreat; it was in the Hill Country of Texas. And… I wore shorts. I didn’t know there was an unwritten rule against wearing shorts. Everyone wore long pants. I didn’t even notice I was the only one in shorts. Nobody explained it beforehand, and nobody took me aside when I arrived. People simply avoided me. They didn’t talk to me; they kept…
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Love One Another
I. Introduction Most organizations want to be recognized. Companies spend millions of dollars to create logos so you can recognize them. Here’s a quick quiz — how many of these company logos can you name? Answers: Row 1: Marriott, Shell, Nike, Popeyes, Pepsi, Atari, Union 76, ToyotaRow 2: Prudential, AT&T, Chevrolet, Adobe, John Deere, McDonald’s, Continental Airlines (now United’s globe), HondaRow 3: Facebook, Chevron, Motorola, Mercedes-Benz, American Airlines, Mazda, Hilton, Taco BellRow 4: Volkswagen, General Mills, Guinness, Anheuser-Busch, Audi, Microsoft, DreamWorks, Apple Sports teams have uniforms. Schools have mascots. Families have resemblances — you look at a child and say,…
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