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It’s not surprising that the book we’re reading for 40 Days of Love – The Relationship Principles of Jesus – emphasizes the importance of memorizing Scripture. How do you love God “with all of your mind“? Here’s what Tom Holladay says:
“To love God with all your mind, you must put God’s words into your mind…Left [...]

The next 40 days would be a great time to memorize passages and/or verses on love. What if you memorized 1 Corinthians 13 – the entire chapter? I can’t help but think that loving God and others better would be the overflow. Anyone willing to try?
Below are verses from the message on Sunday that you [...]

Attention OCC and the greater Orrville community!
“Love Haiti” is the name for the Orrville community collection project to be held from February 21-24 at OCC. We are donating much-needed items to the Haitian Christian Outreach to help the Haiti people that were affected by the tragic earthquake. The following items are needed:
- Peanut Butter
- Adult [...]

We had a great kickoff to 40 Days of Love on Sunday. I hope you came forward and got a “heart” to symbolize your commitment to learning how to love.
I’m enjoying The Relationship Principles of Jesus book by Tom Holladay. Below are a few things I’ve highlighted over the past three days. (If you need [...]

“Do not let the Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.” (Joshua 1:8)
How can we “meditate” on the Word of God “day and night” if we don’t have it [...]

“I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.” (Psalm 119:11)
I’m going to do a few posts on the importance of memorizing Scripture. Check out the new poll to the right.
I took a class called “Spiritual Formation” at Cincinnati Bible Seminary a couple years ago. One of the books [...]