Beloved,
Be Loved, Be Love
7Beloved,
let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born
of God and knows God. 8Whoever does not love does
not know God, for God is love. 9God's love was revealed among
us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live
through him. 10In this is love, not that we
loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for
our sins. 11Beloved, since God loved us
so much, we also ought to love one another. 12No one has ever seen God; if
we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us.
13By this we know that we abide
in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14And we have seen and do testify that the Father has sent his Son
as the Savior of the world. 15God abides in those who
confess that Jesus is the Son of God, and they abide in God. 16So we have known and believe the love that God has for us.
God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God
abides in them. 17Love has been perfected among
us in this: that we may have boldness on the day of judgment, because as he is,
so are we in this world. 18There is no fear in love, but
perfect love casts out fear; for fear has to do with punishment, and whoever
fears has not reached perfection in love. 19We love because he first
loved us. 20Those who say, “I love God,”
and hate their brothers or sisters, are liars; for those who do not love a
brother or sister whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen. 21The commandment we have from him is this: those who love God
must love their brothers and sisters also.
1 John 4:7-21
Beloved
CROSSAN, Linda
2000
Second
Presbyterian Church
Nashvillle,
Tennessee
United
States
https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu//act-imagelink.pl?RC=55303
Why let go of yesterday?
Because yesterday has already let go of you.
~
Steve Maraboli
Learn from yesterday,
live for today,
hope for tomorrow.
~
Albert Einstein
Wildfire Preparedness Day
Saturday, May 1, 2021
Evergreen Fire Department
The
Rotary Firetruck Debut
Dave
Stansbury
It is the mark of an educated mind
to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it.
~
Aristotle
May 2, 2021 Fifth Sunday of Easter Year B
Previous OPQs may be found at:
1“I
am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower. 2He removes every branch in me
that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear
more fruit. 3You have already been
cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you. 4Abide in me as I abide in
you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the
vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. 5I am the vine, you are the
branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart
from me you can do nothing. 6Whoever does not abide in me
is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown
into the fire, and burned. 7If you abide in me, and my
words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and
become my disciples.
John 15:1-8
Agnus
Day, by James Wetzstein
Agnus
Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org
Robin Sakamoto - May 5
and ALSO ...
Kimra Perkins - April 30
Nancy Priest - May 2
Joan Wood - May 7
Acts 8:26-40
Psalm 22:25-31
1 John 4:7-21
John 15:1-8
First Reading Acts 8:26-40
26Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go toward
the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (This is a
wilderness road.) 27So he got up
and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace,
queen of the Ethiopians, in charge of her entire treasury. He had come to
Jerusalem to worship 28and was
returning home; seated in his chariot, he was reading the prophet Isaiah. 29Then the Spirit said to Philip, “Go
over to this chariot and join it.” 30So Philip
ran up to it and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah. He asked, “Do you
understand what you are reading?” 31He replied,
“How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to get in and sit
beside him. 32Now the
passage of the scripture that he was reading was this:
“Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter,
and like a lamb
silent before its shearer,
so
he does not open his mouth.
33 In his humiliation
justice was denied him.
Who can describe
his generation?
For
his life is taken away from the earth.”
34The eunuch asked Philip, “About
whom, may I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone
else?” 35Then Philip
began to speak, and starting with this scripture, he proclaimed to him the good
news about Jesus. 36As they were
going along the road, they came to some water; and the eunuch said, “Look, here
is water! What is to prevent me from being baptized?” [37And Phillip
said,“If you believe with all your heart, you may.” And he replied, “I believe
that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”] 38He commanded
the chariot to stop, and both of them, Philip and the eunuch, went down into
the water, and Philip baptized him. 39When they
came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away; the
eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing. 40But Philip found himself at Azotus,
and as he was passing through the region, he proclaimed the good news to all
the towns until he came to Caesarea.
25 From you comes my praise in the great congregation;
my vows I will pay
before those who fear him.
26 The poor shall eat and be satisfied;
those who seek him
shall praise the Lord.
May your hearts
live forever!
27 All the ends of the earth shall remember
and turn to the Lord;
and all the families of the nations
shall worship
before him.
28 For dominion belongs to the Lord,
and he rules over
the nations.
29 To him, indeed, shall all who sleep in the earth bow
down;
before him shall bow
all who go down to the dust,
and I shall live
for him.
30 Posterity will serve him;
future generations
will be told about the Lord,
31 and proclaim his deliverance to a people yet unborn,
saying that he has
done it.
7Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God;
everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8Whoever does not love does
not know God, for God is love. 9God's love was revealed among
us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live
through him. 10In this is love, not that we
loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for
our sins. 11Beloved, since God loved us
so much, we also ought to love one another. 12No one has ever seen God; if
we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us.
13By this we know that we abide
in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14And we have seen and do testify that the Father has sent his Son
as the Savior of the world. 15God abides in those who
confess that Jesus is the Son of God, and they abide in God. 16So we have known and believe the love that God has for us.
God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God
abides in them. 17Love has been perfected among
us in this: that we may have boldness on the day of judgment, because as he is,
so are we in this world. 18There is no fear in love, but
perfect love casts out fear; for fear has to do with punishment, and whoever
fears has not reached perfection in love. 19We love because he first
loved us. 20Those who say, “I love God,” and
hate their brothers or sisters, are liars; for those who do not love a brother
or sister whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen. 21The commandment we have from him is this: those who love God
must love their brothers and sisters also.
1“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower. 2He removes every branch in me that
bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more
fruit. 3You have
already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you. 4Abide in me as I abide in you. Just
as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither
can you unless you abide in me. 5I am the
vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much
fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing. 6Whoever does
not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are
gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. 7If you abide
in me, and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be
done for you. 8My Father is
glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.