1. GLORY: Illuminating Life with God's Virtue Love – Local and Faith Community 2 Peter 1:3-9 Cornerstone Blue Bible, p. 857.

2. GLORY: Illuminating Life with God's Virtue | Love – Local/Faith Community Faith, goodness, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, mutual affection (brotherly love), love.

3. GLORY: Illuminating Life with God's Virtue | Love – Local/Faith Community Colossians 3:14 And over all these virtues, put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.

4. GLORY: Illuminating Life with God's Virtue | Love – Local/Faith Community Agape love denotes self-sacrificing action on behalf of one-another. This love flows from God himself who is love and reaches the world.

5. GLORY: Illuminating Life with God's Virtue | Love – Local/Faith Community The church now lives in constant tension as it embodies the life of the kingdom in the midst of nations where idolatry reigns (Michael W. Goheen – “A Light to the Nations)

6. GLORY: Illuminating Life with God's Virtue | Love – Local/Faith Community We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. (Johann von Goethe)

7. GLORY: Illuminating Life with God's Virtue | Love – Local/Faith Community Unlovely things must be deeply loved before they become loveable. (G.K. Chesterton)

8. GLORY: Illuminating Life with God's Virtue | Love – Local/Faith Community Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. 1 John 3:16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives our brothers.

9. GLORY: Illuminating Life with God's Virtue | Love – Local/Faith Community TO US / THROUGH US “HEMEWE”

10. GLORY: Illuminating Life with God's Virtue | Love – Local/Faith Community Mark 11:17 Matthew 21:14 (Jesus clears the Temple)

11. GLORY: Illuminating Life with God's Virtue | Love – Local/Faith Community

13. Do you see what I see?

14. GLORY: Illuminating Life with God's Virtue | Love – Local/Faith Community

15. Love won another

16. GLORY: Illuminating Life with God's Virtue | Love – Local/Faith Community May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you. (1 Thessalonians 3:12)