Daily Bible readings to follow the sermon titled  "Baptist Principles, #6: Practical Love for God"  which used various Scriptures.

Click "Read more" See the list of Scripture references (with links to the selections at BibleGateway.com) and a couple of questions for each reading that could be used to stimulate your meditation. It's printable so you can make personal notes on it.

ISSUES in "Bapt. Principles, #6: Love God":
  •We are called to personal experience of and delight in God.
  • Loving God is not identical with love of neighbor.
  • There are spiritual practices which undertaken in good faith really do increase our presence with and love for God.

ISSUES in "Bapt. Principles, #5: Autonomy and Association":
  •Autonomy: freedom, both for individuals and churches
  • Autonomy pressed to an extreme will isolate you and will be destructive.
  • The opposite extreme of complete surrender to some person or group will also have bad effects, and is unBiblical.
  • The baptist principle of "Association" guides us to practice our individual and group freedom without isolating ourselves from enabling and protective connections with others.
  • How are you handling this balance in your own life?

ISSUES in "Bapt. Principles, #4: Practical Love of Neighbors":
  •Baptists in general and this church in particular have a special concern for practical needs of people around them.
  • Matthew 25 is far from the only place where the Bible expresses strong interest in how we treat human need around us.
  • How can you love God whom you cannot see if you do not love your neighbor whom you can see?
  • Who are your closest neighbors? How do you treat them?
  • Serving and giving to your local church can be real acts of love for people in your community.
  • Genuine prayer for them is sometimes the most powerful way of loving people.

I.    Mother Teresa of Calcutta
II.   Martin Luther King Jr
III.  Jesus
IV.   The Kingdom in Our Lives