We’re “Going Green” and are planning to begin e-mailing our newsletter to those who would like to receive it electronically. If you would like to receive an electronic version, please send your email address(es) to the church office at mcspumc@verizon.net and put “email newsletter” in the subject line. Thank you!!!
For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked leads to destruction.
My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. 17 If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? 18 Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears,[a] we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 3 All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.
Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
The LORD is my strength and my defense[a];
he has become my salvation.
Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good;
his love endures forever.
Let Israel say:
“His love endures forever.”
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
