Real Lemonade and the First Kiss8-4-2012 Highland Hope Access Service
John 13:34-35Mark 12:30-311 John 4:7-8
Do you know what this is?
This is how you make real lemonade.
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Countrytime Lemonade Flavor Drink Mix
Insert/play video 1978 Countrytime Lemonade Flavor Drink Mix commercial here.
Copying the characteristics
Ingredients: Sugar, Fructose, Citric Acid (Provides Tartness), Contains less than 2% of Natural Flavor, Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), Maltodextrin, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Sodium Citrate (Controls Acidity), Magnesium Oxide (Prevents Caking), Calcium Fumarate, Soy Lecithin, Artificial Color, Yellow 5 Lake, Tocopherol (Preserves Freshness).
There is more lemon in Lemon Pledge furniture polish than in
Country Time “Lemonade” Flavored Drink Mix
Copying the characteristics of the
perfect church...
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Real: you can always tell.
Mark 12:30 and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind,
and with all your
strength.'
Mark 12:31 The second is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'
There is no other commandment greater than
these."
John 13:34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.35 By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
Beloved, let us love one another. For love is of God, and everyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God. He that loveth not, knoweth not God, for God is love. Beloved, let us love one another … First John 4:7 and 8
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1957 Buick
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The first kiss.
A moment of great danger.
The first kiss.
A moment of great danger.
I chickened
out.
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God asks us to be real in relationships … this is risky.
“... but I have pizza on my breath, too!”God asks us to be real in relationships … this is risky.
It is risky to love God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength.
It is risky to love our neighbor as ourselves.It is risky to love one another as Jesus loved us.
It is risky to be honest to God and to others... but it's worth it.
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God asks us to be real. Is what you reveal … real?
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communion.
Following slides are extras.
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