Feb 18, 2024
Love is Letting God Make You Who You Are
By: Troy Burns
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.
WatchNotesDownloadDateTitle
- Feb 18, 2024Love is Letting God Make You Who You Are
Feb 18, 2024Love is Letting God Make You Who You AreBy: Troy BurnsSeries: Love BetterGod 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 11, 2024Love is Thinking of Yourself Less
Feb 11, 2024Love is Thinking of Yourself LessBy: Henry HolubSeries: Love BetterIn this week's message from our Love Better series, Henry (the minister at the Northside church) explains that love "is not proud," or "puffed up," but rather it functions in such a way that other people's needs are more important than our own. We don't think less of ourselves, but we do think of ourselves less.
- Feb 4, 2024Love Makes Others More Important
Feb 4, 2024Love Makes Others More ImportantBy: Troy BurnsSeries: Love BetterLove "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 28, 2024Love Simmers Down (It Doesn’t Boil Over)
Jan 28, 2024Love Simmers Down (It Doesn’t Boil Over)By: Bud GothmannSeries: Love BetterThe Greek word for envy means, “imitating the sound of boiling water,” so, envy means “boiling over” with jealousy. As Bud explains, we need to "simmer down" and remember that envy actually demonstrates a lack of genuine love.
- Jan 21, 2024Love is Service with a Purpose
Jan 21, 2024Love is Service with a PurposeBy: Troy BurnsSeries: Love BetterAs 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, 2024Love Has a Long FuseBy: Troy BurnsSeries: 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, 2024Love Better (The Greatest Thing You Can Do)By: Troy BurnsSeries: Love BetterTo 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.