This message continues the Love One Another series and is centered around Encouragement. Christians don't really follow what Jesus told us to do but tend to follow what other Christians do. Christians need to do less affirming and more encouraging and help fan the light in other Christians.

Competition and winning is foundational to life in America. It is not merely about sports, but we see it in business, academics, courtship and dating, social media, the news, and even in the church. It seems almost like second nature for us to promote ourselves or our agenda or our institution as being superior to all that is around. To do otherwise would be un-American. Yet, the agenda of a Christian is to lift up others, and that might mean we weaken our strength to strengthen the weak.

This message shows how we are to resolve conflict in the church and how we are to reconcile with those we have conflict.

This message shows how we can create our own tribes and how we show love to those that are like us and stay away of those that are different from us. This message shows how we are not to "judge" others, but accept others.

What is love? This message details the new commandment that we are to love one another and how we are to redream love to what God has commanded.

Lust vs. Love - We look at Solomon's teachings of discipline and how our desires can cause troubles for us if our desires comprise mostly of lust.

This message details God's justice, the world's injustice and justice the world imposes. We are to look at what is wrong in this world and what it would take to make it right.

This message shows how we are to have Unity. One of the ways we unite is with our mission to Haiti.

This message shows how we are to choose wise counsel and rely on God. We are not to rely on our own strength or other powers in the world, we are to rely fully on God.

Planing is something we all do, but things don't always go according to plan. Scripture tells us to prepare for what God wants us to do. Today's message explains the difference between planing and preparing.