Josh Benner

Tag: love

  • Sermon: Pride and Prejudice – Galatians 5:25-6:5

    We are called to love our neighbor and to bear one another’s burdens. In this passage, these commands are contrasted by two things which are destructive to our relationships: envy and pride. Sermon manuscript

  • Sermon: Life in the Spirit – Galatians 5:16-25

    We often reduce the Christian life to a list of rules. Do’s and don’ts. But in Galatians 5, Paul calls upon Christians to walk and live by the Spirit and talks of the fruits of that Spiritual life. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control are not commands here. They’re the byproduct…

  • The hardest commandment: love your neighbor

    The hardest commandment: love your neighbor

    Throughout the Bible, there are lots of commands to love people. Why?  Obviously because it’s important. But it’s also interesting that the command keeps coming up.  The fact that it has to be told to us over and over again points to the fact that it’s actually hard for us to do. The Bible doesn’t…

  • Love and the law – Galatians 5:1-15

    Many in our world can be hard to love, but the Bible repeatedly commands us to love our neighbor. Jesus sought out those who were looked down upon in his society. For most of us, it’s easy to be selective about those with whom we interact. Because of that, it’s easy to think that we…

  • Super Bowl commercial takes page from C.S. Lewis

    In “//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=US&source=ac&ref=qf_sp_asin_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=joshbennerblo-20&marketplace=amazon&region=US&placement=0062565397&asins=0062565397&linkId=9bed81c75e6ca89524f6b0c034fbf93a&show_border=false&link_opens_in_new_window=true&price_color=333333&title_color=f7fbff&bg_color=ffffff” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>The Four Loves,” scholar, author and renowned Christian apologist C.S. Lewis talks of the four words for love in the Greek language. During this year’s Super Bowl, New York Life, an insurance company borrowed that idea and gave a pretty good explanation of the four loves. The commercial begins “the ancient Greeks…