Over All These Put On Love
Speaker Notes
Colossians 3:14
14 And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
Colossians 2:1-3
2.1 I want you to know how hard I am contending for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not met me personally. 2 My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, 3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Colossians 2:6-7
6 So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, 7 rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
“One Thousand Gifts” by Ann Voskamp
“Works of Love” by Søren Kierkegaard
Oh true dedication, however, is to give up all demands on life; all demands on power and honor and advantage; all demands. Consequently, to give up all demands
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“A man’s life begins with the delusion that a long, long time and a whole world lie in the distance before him, begins with the rash fancy that he has ample time for the fulfillment of all his expectations. The poet is the smooth-talking, enthusiastic confidant of this rash but beautiful fancy. But when a man in the infinite transformation himself discovered the eternal so near to life that there is not the distance of one single wish, of one single evasion, of one single moment from what he in this now, in this second, in this holy moment ought to do–then his is on the way to becoming a Christian. It is characteristic of childhood to say: Me want–me–me. It is characteristic of youth to say, ‘I–and I–and I’ The mark of maturity and the dedication of the eternal is to will to understand that this I has no significance if it does not become the you, the thou, to whom the eternal incessantly speak and says: ‘You shall, you shall, you shall.’ It is youthful to want to be the only I in the whole world. Maturity is to understand this you as address to oneself, even though it were not said to a single other person. You shall; you shall love your neighbour. O, my reader, it is not to you I speak. It is to me, to whom the eternal says: ‘You shall.’”
Colossians 3:1-4
3.1 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
David is a Theologian and Ethicist.