{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Church is Messy","title":"Masterpiece: The Art of Love","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/0b8dd7fc\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2060,"description":"Bob Ross, air conditioning, adversity, and pruning. What do all of these have in common? Rick and Svea have a very practical conversation about the latest installment in our Masterpiece series, The Art of Love.\nAbout the Masterpiece series\nTheme Verse: For we are God’s handiwork [masterpiece], created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10\nSeries Thesis: We are good works of art created to do the art of good works.\nResources for this episode\nWatch the message at: https://youtu.be/5b_uhDsZO7E\nListen to the message at: https://arcsermons.transistor.fm/episodes/masterpiece-the-art-of-love\n2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. 3 Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. Ephesians 4:2-3\n\nTopics Discussed in this episode\n00:00 Intro\n00:38 Recap of our Outdoor Baptism Service\n03:23 Overview of Rick's sermon on love yesterday and Bob Ross analogy\n04:00 Being in Christ and \"Bearing with each other in love\" or \"putting up with\" (Ephesians 4:2)\n07:25 Loving and bearing with others while still having boundaries and accountability\n10:18 Boundaries for abiding in Jesus and the air conditioning analogy\n12:32 Explanation of how sin and moral wrong is always a violation love\n15:11 How does God prune us to make us bear more fruit, be more loving, and find significance, security, and satisfaction in Jesus?\n19:33 Adversity can show us we have been leaning on the wrong thing\n22:42 What can we do when we recognize we are placing our significance, security, and satisfaction in the wrong things?\n24:31 Rick's experience with personal challenges and how they helped him create strategies to better follow Christ and yield to his ways\n28:51 If we truly believe that we are loved by Jesus and that others are loved by Jesus, what would it really look like?\n29:45 Are pruning and correction the same, or is pruning for a different purpose?\n33:13 The Gospel is deep and...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/eGW0GjLFQWz3qpPjio-ji_5x5MOSNJlW79nf4VSHKIM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI4Mzk3LzE2ODMw/MzYzMDItYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}