my fondest memories
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My Fondest Memories. Feeling the first chill of winter Decorating my parents’ home Driving to see Christmas lights Gulping down quarts of Eggnog Exchanging presents. HBC Fondest Memories. Celebrating Jesus’ birthday Cutting down trees Decorating houses Eating big dinners - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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My Fondest Memories
• Feeling the first chill of winter• Decorating my parents’ home• Driving to see Christmas lights• Gulping down quarts of Eggnog• Exchanging presents
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HBC Fondest Memories
• Celebrating Jesus’ birthday• Cutting down trees• Decorating houses• Eating big dinners• Exchanging presents• Hanging with family or friends• Listening to live Christmas music• Making Christmas cookies• Singing Christmas carols• Sponsoring needy families
Is there anything missing
from our lists?
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New Fond Memory
RefreshingYour First
Love for God
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First Love—Definition
“First”Greek—prōtosto be foremostin time, place,
importance
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First Love—Definition
“Love”Greek—agapē
kindness,compassion,generosity
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First Love—Definition
“With reference to God’s love, it is God’s willful direction toward man. It involves God doing what He knows is best for man and not necessarily what man desires . . .
Spiros Zodhiates, EditorThe Complete Word Study Dictionary (1992)
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First Love—Definition
. . . ‘For God so loved the world, that he gave.’ What did He give? Not what man wanted, but what God knew man needed, i.e., His Son to bring forgiveness to man.”
Spiros Zodhiates, EditorThe Complete Word Study Dictionary (1992)
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First Love—Characteristics
Revelation 2:4
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First Love—Characteristics
Bill MacDonaldBeliever’s Bible Commentary (1995)
“The fire of its affection had died down. The glowing enthusiasm of its early days had disappeared. The Christians could look back to better days when their bridal love . . .
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First Love—Characteristics
Bill MacDonaldBeliever’s Bible Commentary (1995)
. . . for Christ flowed warm, full, and free. They were still sound in doctrine and active in service, but the true motive of all worship and service was missing.”
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First Love—Characteristics
Matthew HenryMatthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible(n.d.)
“[They had] not left and forsaken the object of it but lost the fervent degree of it that at first appeared.”
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First Love—Characteristics
1 Thessalonians 5:19Do not quench
the Spirit.
Contrast #1
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First Love—Characteristics
Romans 8:9 However, you are
not in the flesh but in the Spirit,
if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in
you. But if anyone does not have the
Spirit of Christ, he does not belong
to Him.
Contrast #1
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First Love—Characteristics
Romans 15:13Now may the God
of hope fill you with all joy and
peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Contrast #2
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First Love—Characteristics
Ephesians 2:12Remember that you were at that
time separate from Christ,
excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and
strangers to the covenants of promise,
having no hope and without God
in the world. Contrast #2
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First Love—Characteristics
2 Timothy 1:7For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but
of power and love and discipline.
Contrast #3
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First Love—Characteristics
1 John 4:18There is no fear
in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because
fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected
in love.
Contrast #3
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First Love—Characteristics
Matthew HenryMatthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible(n.d.)
“Christ is grieved and displeased with his people when he sees them grow remiss and cold towards him, . . .
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First Love—Characteristics
Matthew HenryMatthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible(n.d.)
. . . and he will one way or other make them sensible that he does not take it well from them.”
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First Love—Examples
Elizabeth
Luke 1:41-45
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First Love—Examples
Mary
Luke 1:46-55
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First Love—Examples
Zacharias
Luke 1:67-79
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First Love—Examples
Simeon
Luke 2:25-35
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First Love—Examples
Kyle WestwoodBaptism Testimony, Hillview Bible Chapel(2009)
“I see God’s blessings in my life that were there all along, and He fills me with an awesome joy. I see that Jeremiah was right when he said, . . .
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First Love—Examples
Kyle WestwoodBaptism Testimony, Hillview Bible Chapel(2009)
. . . ‘The lord’s loving kindnesses indeed never cease, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning’ (Lam. 3:22-23).”
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First Love—Examples
2008-2009
Jessica AbelWendy Blanton
Alicia ByrdEric CaldwellCheryl Kute
Oshagan MerjanianGraham PatersonAudra RobinsonJohn Westwood . . . and others
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First Love—Source
Christ
First, prōtos, means to be foremost inwhatever.
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First Love—Source
Christ
He said, “He is the First.”
(Revelation 1:17)
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First Love—Source
Christ
First to come to us
(Philippians 2:8)
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First Love—Source
Christ
First to showus love
(1 John 4:19)
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First Love—Source
Christ
First to preachthe gospel
(Hebrews 2:3)
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First Love—Source
Christ
First to beresurrected
(1 Corinthians 15:20)
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First Love—Source
Christ
First ineverything
(Colossians 1:18)
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Christ
First Love