1. October 9, 2016

2. What Can
We Learn
From Our
Canine
Friends?

3. The
Dog
Sermon
Inspired by John Crump

9. What Can
We Learn
From Our
Canine
Friends?

10. 9 Pictures of Dogs 9 Lessons for People
When loved ones come home, always run to greet them.
9 Pictures
of Dogs
9 Lessons
for People

11. 1. BE LOVING
“Love one another with brotherly affection” (Romans 12:10).
“Let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth” (1 Jn 3:18).

12. 2. BE FORBEARING “There are many members, but one body” (1 Cor 12:20).
“With all humility and gentleness, with patience, show forbearance to one another in love” (Eph 4:2).

13. 3. BE FORGIVING When loved ones come home, always run to greet them.
“His father saw him, and felt compassion for him, and ran and embraced him” (Lk 15:20).
“Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you” (Eph 4:32).

14. 4. BE HUMBLE
“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23).
“And why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?” (Mt 7:3).

15. 5. BE GENEROUS “I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat” (Mt 25:35).
“God is able to make all grace abound to you, that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed” (2 Cor 9:8).

16. 6. BE ENCOURAGING
“When one member suffers, all the members suffer” (1 Cor 12:26).
“A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity” (Pr 17:17).
“Encourage one another, and build up one another” (1 Thess 5:11).

17. 7. BE HONEST
“Having put away false- hood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor” (Eph 4:25).
“Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its evil practices” (Col 3:9).
“But I say to you, make no oath at all” (Matt 5:34).

18. 8. BE DEPENDABLE
A man should “provide for his own, and especially for those of his household” (1 Tim 5:8).
“Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful” (1 Cor 4:2).

19. A dog trusts his master will always provide
9. BE SELFLESS “Do not look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others” (Phil 2:4).

20. BE LOVING BE FORBEARING BE FORGIVING BE HUMBLE BE GENEROUS
When loved ones come home, always run to greet them.
BE LOVING
BE FORBEARING
BE FORGIVING
BE HUMBLE
BE GENEROUS
BE ENCOURAGING
BE HONEST
BE DEPENDABLE
BE SELFLESS

22. BE READY
“The day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night” (1 Th 5:2).
“The gate is small, and the way is narrow that leads to life, and few are those who find it” (Matt 7:14).

23. BE WASHED IN THE BLOOD What can wash away my sin?
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.