010: Love is an Action

Jesus is starting to sound like a broken record. LOVE ONE ANOTHER ALREADY! Music by Michigan Americana Duo Escaping Pavement. Poetry by Bengali writer Rabindranath Tagore. Shownotes Featured Musicians Escaping Pavement "Fuel the Fire" www.escapingpavement.com Facebook iTunes Spotify Reading No. 1 John 15:9-17 LOVE ONE ANOTHER AS I HAVE LOVED YOU As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete. “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another. Reading No. 2 "Unending Love" by Rabindranath Tagore (Selected Poems) Love for the World Part of each episode of the Living Presence Podcast will feature a section where we lift up people and places who can use our alliance, our attention and some hope. (If you are from a United Church, this would be similar to "Prayers of the People" or "Prayers of Thanksgiving and Intercession"). The idea and our hope are that listeners from all over can send in the people and places they would like to bring to our attention, and I would love it if YOU would consider sending something in to be aired. You can either a) record something with the voice recorder app on your phone and email it to [email protected] OR b) call 289-903-0019 and leave a voicemail OR c) Leave a written comment and I will read it on the air. THIS WEEK WE LIFT UP: The victims, their families and friends, and first responders, from the van attach in Toronto on April 23 The victims of the flooding in the Fredericton area of New Brunswick The family, friends and victims of Erick Davila who was executed by the State of Texas on April 25 The family, friends and victims of Juan Costillo, who is set to be executed by the State of Texas on March 16