How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

Now we have developed today Alka-Celsa Christians and Alka-Selta churches. It's all fierce foam and froth. All that you have is just a lot of emotion and a lot of talking about love love.

Well that's Dr. J. Vernon McGee giving us a blast from the past.

But it's funny, some things really don't change, do they?

Welcome to Through the Bible.

I'm your host and fellow Bible student Steve Schwartz

and now don't be confused by Dr. McGee's statement of course the church should be the primary place

where love is shown but in this study we're going to learn that

real love isn't just a surface affection. Real love wants the very best for the

person and that may involve saying and doing the hard thing in order to help each other become more like Jesus Christ.

Some call this tough love, but you know it's really love in grace and truth.

We're in our final study of 1st Timothy beginning at chapter 5 verse 19. But before

we dive in let's take a moment and hear from our fellow listeners. You know we always

love getting your letters and I certainly love sharing them so this first letter comes from Joyce in

cottonwood California. I don't claim to be a giant as a prayer warrior

and have been quite apathetic in my prayer life over the years.

Recently I've thought how terrible I am with geography and wondering if being a part of the

world prayer team would help me grow in both areas.

When you send an email with the country for the day to pray for, I like to try and take a few minutes to do a

Google search of that country and then watch a YouTube video about it or look at a full world

map to orient myself.

Thank you for the short prayer suggestions and the

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