PowerPoint Slides from our first week of studying C.S. Lewis' "The Four Loves." Some great background on Lewis and what made him who he was. Thanks to Terry Miller for putting this together and leading our study.
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John MacArthur, “Agape love is the greatest virtue of the Christian life. Yet that type of love was rare in pagan Greek literature. That’s because the traits agape portrays—unselfishness, self-giving, willful devotion, concern for the welfare of others—were mostly disdained in ancient Greek culture as signs of weakness. However, the ew Testament declares agape to be the character trait around which
all others revolve. The apostle John writes, “God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him” (1 John 4:16).
This is a brief introduction to Film Making. Rather than a course, it is a tool for self learning. It contains topics or keywords relevant to film making and the learner is expected to do independent search about those keywords to learn in depth about each topic.
John MacArthur, “Agape love is the greatest virtue of the Christian life. Yet that type of love was rare in pagan Greek literature. That’s because the traits agape portrays—unselfishness, self-giving, willful devotion, concern for the welfare of others—were mostly disdained in ancient Greek culture as signs of weakness. However, the ew Testament declares agape to be the character trait around which
all others revolve. The apostle John writes, “God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him” (1 John 4:16).
Here are 25 inspirational quotes about God's love, which is the most powerful love in the universe. These quotes about God's love will show us the unchangeable nature of our Heavenly Father, explain His kind offerings, and help us dwell deeper on the love of God and His Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord. Visit us at bibilium.com, a wholesome Christian blog that caters to the need of every member of the family. Spread the Love and Share the Joy. Celebrate the amazing goodness of God in your lives.
In this Sunday’s Gospel we hear the three most important words given to us in the Bible. By far, it is the greatest and hardest thing Christ asked us to do...but truly…it is all that really, really matters.
What are those words…and why do we find it so hard to follow them?
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I want us to think about the question...WHAT IF? When you hear that question, how does it make you feel? Yell it out!
The question, “What if?” brings about fear in me…I hear stuff like…
What if they don’t like me?
What if they don’t think I’m good enough?
What if I mess up?
What if I don’t look like them?
What if, what if, what if!
• Gifts will pass away, and what we are left with is what God wants us to have most of…love.
• See, if we have a church that is known for preaching, we have missed it.
• If we are known for our singers, we’ve missed it.
• If it’s our programs, we’ve missed it again.
• If our church isn’t known for its love, we have missed what God created us for, and why the body of Christ exists in the first place.
Love says I need you. Love says you’re worth the risk, the pain, and the discomfort. Love proves each piece matters.
This is a study of Jesus as a fragrant offering. His sacrifice was a sweet smelling offering to God and God was pleased with the priced He was willing to pay to save His chosen ones.
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The Hope of Salvation - Jude 1:24-25 - MessageCole Hartman
Jude gives us hope at the end of a dark letter. In a dark world like today, we need the light of Christ to shine brighter and brighter. Jude shows us where to fix our focus so we can be filled with God's goodness and glory. Join us to explore this incredible passage.
Exploring the Mindfulness Understanding Its Benefits.pptxMartaLoveguard
Slide 1: Title: Exploring the Mindfulness: Understanding Its Benefits
Slide 2: Introduction to Mindfulness
Mindfulness, defined as the conscious, non-judgmental observation of the present moment, has deep roots in Buddhist meditation practice but has gained significant popularity in the Western world in recent years. In today's society, filled with distractions and constant stimuli, mindfulness offers a valuable tool for regaining inner peace and reconnecting with our true selves. By cultivating mindfulness, we can develop a heightened awareness of our thoughts, feelings, and surroundings, leading to a greater sense of clarity and presence in our daily lives.
Slide 3: Benefits of Mindfulness for Mental Well-being
Practicing mindfulness can help reduce stress and anxiety levels, improving overall quality of life.
Mindfulness increases awareness of our emotions and teaches us to manage them better, leading to improved mood.
Regular mindfulness practice can improve our ability to concentrate and focus our attention on the present moment.
Slide 4: Benefits of Mindfulness for Physical Health
Research has shown that practicing mindfulness can contribute to lowering blood pressure, which is beneficial for heart health.
Regular meditation and mindfulness practice can strengthen the immune system, aiding the body in fighting infections.
Mindfulness may help reduce the risk of chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes and obesity by reducing stress and improving overall lifestyle habits.
Slide 5: Impact of Mindfulness on Relationships
Mindfulness can help us better understand others and improve communication, leading to healthier relationships.
By focusing on the present moment and being fully attentive, mindfulness helps build stronger and more authentic connections with others.
Mindfulness teaches us how to be present for others in difficult times, leading to increased compassion and understanding.
Slide 6: Mindfulness Techniques and Practices
Focusing on the breath and mindful breathing can be a simple way to enter a state of mindfulness.
Body scan meditation involves focusing on different parts of the body, paying attention to any sensations and feelings.
Practicing mindful walking and eating involves consciously focusing on each step or bite, with full attention to sensory experiences.
Slide 7: Incorporating Mindfulness into Daily Life
You can practice mindfulness in everyday activities such as washing dishes or taking a walk in the park.
Adding mindfulness practice to daily routines can help increase awareness and presence.
Mindfulness helps us become more aware of our needs and better manage our time, leading to balance and harmony in life.
Slide 8: Summary: Embracing Mindfulness for Full Living
Mindfulness can bring numerous benefits for physical and mental health.
Regular mindfulness practice can help achieve a fuller and more satisfying life.
Mindfulness has the power to change our perspective and way of perceiving the world, leading to deeper se
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It seems that current missionary work requires spending a lot of money, preparing a lot of materials, and traveling to far away places, so that it feels like missionary work. But what was the result they brought back? It's just a lot of photos of activities, fun eating, drinking and some playing games. And then we have to do the same thing next year, never ending. The church once mentioned that a certain missionary would go to the field where she used to work before the end of his life. It seemed that if she had not gone, no one would be willing to go. The reason why these missionary work is so difficult is that no one obeys God’s words, and the Bible is not the main content during missionary work, because in the eyes of those who do not obey God’s words, the Bible is just words and cannot be connected with life, so Reading out God's words is boring because it doesn't have any life experience, so it cannot be connected with human life. I will give a few examples in the hope that this situation can be changed. A375
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2 Peter 3: Because some scriptures are hard to understand and some will force them to say things God never intended, Peter warns us to take care.
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3. Biography 1898 -1963
Irish / Poet / Author / Orator
Oxford Professor for 38 years ; retired from Cambridge
Scholar of Medieval literature
Christian Apologist
Wrote over 60 books on various subjects
Chronicles of Narnia, The Screwtape Letters , Mere
Christianity, Out of the Silent Planet
Great teacher who popularized Christian ideas for the general
population
He had a gift for making the complex accessible
4. “Jack “ Lewis the Atheist
He was an avowed Atheist until 1929
Taught by William Kirkpatrick, “The Great Knock”
Horrors of WW I solidified his atheistic beliefs
Met J.R.R. Tolkien in 1926 who challenged his
thinking as did author G.K. Chesterton.
On atheism; “ Nearly all I loved I believed to be
imaginary; nearly all I believed to be real I thought
grim and meaningless.”
5. Lewis’ conversion to Theism
“You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night
after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a
second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of
Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I
greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term
of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt
and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and
reluctant convert in all England. I did not then see what is now
the most shining and obvious thing; the Divine humility which
will accept a convert even on such terms. “
6. After Conversion to Christianity
“ I believe in Christianity as I
believe that the sun has risen;
not only because I see it, but
by it, I see everything else.”
7. Time Line of Lewis’ Life 1909 ; Lewis mother dies of cancer
1917 ; Student at Oxford – meets Paddy Moore
1918 ; Lewis is wounded in WW1. Paddy Moore dies. Lewis promise to take care of Paddy’s
family.
1919- 1923 Back to Oxford . Janie and Maureen Moore begin living there with him.
Graduates in 1924
1925 Becomes professor at Oxford
1929 – Converts to theism
1931 – Becomes a Christian
1933 – 1950 ; The Inklings
1951- Janie Moore dies of cancer
1952 – Meets Joy Davidman
1954 – Leaves Oxford for Cambridge
1956 – Marries Joy Davidman
1958 - writes the Four Loves
1960- Joy Davidman dies of cancer
1963 – Lewis dies / renal and heart failure
8. A wonderful collaboration that fought
modernism; The Inklings – C.S.Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien,
Charles Williams, Owen Barfield, Hugo Dyson and Warren Lewis
12. The Four Loves
It was originally a series of ten recordings broadcast via radio
stations across the U.S. in 1958. Many Southern stations
refused to play the recordings because of the subject.
It was the second time he made radio recordings into a book.
‘Mere Christianity’ was the first ( 1941-44 )
Lewis recorded the episodes and rewrote it as a book with his
wife, Joy, who was dying of bone cancer. It was designed to
be a service to Christians and a way to share his love with his
wife.
But Lewis’ writing style is old school. Not a textbook . All his
works are designed to be read aloud like poetry.
13. Human Love and Divine Love
7 Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for
love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of
God and knows God. 8 But anyone who does not love
does not know God, for God is love.9 God showed how
much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into
the world so that we might have eternal life through
him.10 This is real love—not that we loved God, but that
he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away
our sins.11 Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we
surely ought to love each other. 1 John 4:7-11
God does… we should. A world of difference ?
Lewis wants us to be able to differentiate between “Like
and Same.”
14. Chapter 1 - Introduction
Designed to give foundational basis for understanding the
nature of love itself.
If we get this part wrong the truth that God is Love can easily
become the human ideal that Love is God.
Two main categories of love : ‘Need Love’ and ‘Gift Love’
‘Need Love’ – human love. “ the son of poverty.” We are
born helpless .
Humans are social beings dependent on others.
Our whole basis of being seems to be one vast need.
The argument has been made that human love is not really
love at all.
15. ‘Need Love’
But this would be a mistake.
“The highest does not stand without the lowest” – from the
‘Imitation of Christ’ - Thomas A Kempis and Luke 14:10
“ The saints stand high in God’s eyes who are lowest in their
own and the more glorious they are, the more humble the
spirit.”
We should humbly embrace our ‘Need Love’ because it is our
deepest need and desire. It is how God created us. (“It is not
good for man to be alone.” Genesis 2:18)
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened and I will
give you rest” – Matthew 11:28
16. ‘Gift Love’
Divine Love
The Love that God has for humanity
From a human perspective it is sacrificial giving. It is not easy and seems
unnatural.
But we are called by God to love one another as he loves us.
What does this type of “Gift Love” look like ?
I Corinthians 13: 3-8
3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I
may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not
proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily
angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but
rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes,
always perseveres.
8 Love never fails.
17. How can we ‘possess’ Gift Love ?
“Man’s spiritual health is proportional to his love for God.”
We need to know difference between Nearness to God and likeness to
God
We are created in God’s image. We all have certain God given gifts. We are
like Him because he made us this way. But ‘likeness does not equate to
nearness.”
“ Man approaches God most nearly when he is least like God.” ( The
man traveling the road home or sitting on the edge of the cliff analogy)
Nearness to God is self initiated. It is a willed imitation. We must walk the
road to get there even if it seems to be further away than where we were
sitting.
Our model for nearness to God is Christ. His life is “The Divine Life
operating under human conditions.” He is our template for Divine / Gift
Love.
18. Chapter 2 ; Likings and Loves
‘Normally’ we like things and love people
Liking is not love but again, “The highest doesn’t stand without the
lowest.”
To like something infers pleasure
Two types of pleasure 1.) need pleasures 2.) pleasures of appreciation
Need pleasures – immediate and transitory. Based on a desire that is
natural but that can be perverted. ( Water, sleep, addictions )
Need pleasures foreshadow our Need Loves
Pleasures of appreciation – not based on wants or desires. Starting point
for the experience of beauty. Something outside of ourselves that
deserves acknowledgement. Art forms, nature.
Pleasures of appreciation foreshadows what ?
19. Appreciative Pleasure as Love
There is an shadow here of ‘a disinterested love .’
We don’t merely ‘like’ these things, we pronounce them to be ‘good’
There is a third type of love beyond ‘Gift’ and ‘Need’.
We will call it ‘Appreciative Love.’ Homage, admiration, hero-worship.
Need love cries out from it’s poverty
Gift love longs to serve or to even suffer for something
Appreciative Love says thank you for simply being.
“In actual life, thank God, the three elements of love mix and succeed on
another, moment by moment. Perhaps none of them except need love
ever exist alone, in chemical purity, for more than a few seconds. And
perhaps that is because nothing about is except our neediness is, in this
life, permanent.”
20. Love of Nature
Love of Nature ; “It is the moods or the spirit that matter of the individual
when appreciating nature. Nature does not teach. It reveals something
about itself and something about us.”
It is here when love can be perverted based on how we choose to ‘clothe’
our experience. The moods and spirits of nature hold no morality in
themselves. We project ourselves onto them as a graft.
“A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature but an
experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy.”
If we don’t understand this, then ”the love of nature begins to turn into a
nature religion.” Nature can point us towards God. But it is not the same
as God.
21. Love of Country
Even Christ loved Jerusalem. But we must be able to again differentiate between
the sentiments themselves for what they are and are not.
Love of country can also become demoniac and produce wicked acts. Private
citizens should keep a wary eye on the health or disease of our love for our
country.
Love of home , love of tradition, love of language. None of this should be
condemned.
“Just as family offers us the first step beyond self-love, so love of country offers us
the first step beyond family selfishness.”