If you've ever gone to the symphony, you've heard them begin by tuning.

But as Nancy de Maswalgamo says, we don't go to hear the orchestra tune.

We go to hear them play together.

Those instruments that when they begin to play together make such a beautiful sound,

when they're just tuning up and all playing their own thing, it's a

horrendous sound. Makes you want to put your hands over your ears. And Paul says that's what a family

is like. That's what a church is like if we're speaking the truth, but we don't have love.

Just like a bunch of instruments making a loud noise. This is the Reviver Hearts podcast

with Nancy DeMoss Walgamoo, author of Lies, Women Believe and the Truth that Sets Them Free.

For February 8th, 2022, I'm Dana Grash.

If we speak without love, our words are just noise, kind of like an orchestra tuning.

But when we speak with love, it can be as beautiful as a moving concert. Today, Nancy, Nancy, will encourage us to let godly love influence

our speech. Let's listen as she continues in the series. How's your love life? We're looking this

week at the great love chapter. Some have called it a hymn of love, first Corinthians chapter 13.

And we've seen how the Corinthian church had a whole host of problems

that were the result of a loveless religion, lack of love in their relationships with God and with one

another. Created all sorts of divisions and conflict and contention. Paul had to write a whole book just to address the

problems that were created in this church because they did not know how to love one another

with the love of God. They were selfish rather than loving. We've said that genuine love

is totally giving of myself to meet the needs of another person

without expecting anything in return.

Now as we turn today to 1 Corinthians chapter 13, we want to look particularly at the first paragraph,

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