Lifelong Learning
September 13, 2020
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end.
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
Nancy Protzmann says
I am so so sad to hear about Bruce’s passing.
“Wherever a beautiful soul has been— there is a trail of beautiful memories.”
I know we all have wonderful memories of Bruce. To Cindy, and Sharon, and all of his family and friends, my deepest sympathy and prayers. Bruce will be greatly missed.
Jana Howe says
Gosh, Thank you. Message of love so important now. The stresses are rising so rapidly it seems. Loved singing a hymn with you Sara! THanks Sue and Micheal and Pastor Kate again for such great prayers and kid’s sermon. LOVE to you all!
Sally Bowkett says
The brilliance of beauty and the beauty of brilliance through organ music, the singing of a Joyful hymn, to listening and hearing the spoken words from the heart. God’s spirit of unending love for all on this Rally Day is ‘Just the Best.’ Thank you so much from Georgia, this Monday morning.
A gentle soul passed this way, he graced my heart in his own way
with his humor, yet dry, and his intellect so keen
you might have missed, this one of Gods’ bright beams….
Rest In Peace, Brother Bruce with love from Sister Sally