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  • Bloom: Everything You Need | Week 8 | To Mutual Affection Add Love

    Bloom: Everything You Need | Week 8 | To Mutual Affection Add Love
    2026/05/31

    In this sermon, Aaron is closing out our Bloom series by looking at the different definitions of the word “love” from the original language of scripture. He focuses on “Agape” love and how we the church are to demonstrate that.

    Bloom recap scripture: 2 Peter 1:1-7

    For this very reason, make every effort to to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. 2 Peter 1:5-7

    Types of love:

    • Eros = Romantic love
    • Storge = Familial love
    • Phileo = Brotherly love
    • Agape = selfless, unwavering, unconditional, love of God

    Biblical description of Agape:

    • 1 Corinthians 13:1-3
    • 1 Corinthians 13:4-8a

    Example of Agape love: Jesus washes His disciples’ feet

    Ultimate scripture for Agape love:

    For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16
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    39 分
  • Bloom: Everything You Need | Week 7 | To Godliness Add Mutual Affection

    Bloom: Everything You Need | Week 7 | To Godliness Add Mutual Affection
    2026/05/24
    5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; 7 and to godliness, mutual affection…2 Peter 1:5–7 (NIV)


    philadelphia = the love of brothers, brotherly love

    God’s plan for your transformation is through a faith community

    10 Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. Romans 12:10 (NIV)22 Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart. 1 Peter 1:22 (NIV)

    Go small

    Go strong

    33 Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.” c 34 Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God—I say this to your shame. 1 Corinthians 15:33-34 (NIV)
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    41 分
  • Bloom: Everything You Need | Week 6 | To Perseverance Add Godliness

    Bloom: Everything You Need | Week 6 | To Perseverance Add Godliness
    2026/05/17
    5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness… 2 Peter 1:5–6 (NIV)


    • Godliness = eusebeia
    • Good + Worship/devout/God-fearing
    • Secular life
    • Sacred life
    For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. 1 Thessalonians 4:7 (NIV)


    Godliness is when every part of your life is sacred

    What needs to be made pure for God in your life?
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    32 分
  • Bloom: Everything You Need | Week 5 | To Self-Control Add Perseverance

    Bloom: Everything You Need | Week 5 | To Self-Control Add Perseverance
    2026/05/10
    22 Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea and they went into the Desert of Shur. For three days they traveled in the desert without finding water. 23 When they came to Marah, they could not drink its water because it was bitter. (That is why the place is called Marah. c) 24 So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?” Exodus 15:22–24 (NIV)

    27 Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there near the water. Exodus 15:27 (NIV)

    5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance… 2 Peter 1:5-6 (NIV)


    Perseverance = Hupomone

    Hupo = Under

    Mone = Stay

    Stay the right course under pressure


    2 Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 4 And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. James 1:2-4 (NASB)


    In your walk of faith, where do you need to persevere?
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    41 分
  • Bloom: Everything You Need | Week 4 | To Knowledge Add Self-Control

    Bloom: Everything You Need | Week 4 | To Knowledge Add Self-Control
    2026/05/03
    5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control… 2 Peter 1:5–6 (NIV)


    Self control = Egkrateia

    To hold, to grip, to have power over

    Mastery over your appetites, impulses and desires

    Who is your master?

    How does Jesus become master of your soul?

    • Faith
    • Goodness
    • Knowledge
    • Self control
    • Fasting

    Be held close in love so as to be held accountable in love

    Be like Joseph

    6 So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph’s care; with Joseph in charge, he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well-built and handsome, 7 and after a while his master’s wife took notice of Joseph and said, “Come to bed with me!” 8 But he refused. “With me in charge,” he told her, “my master does not concern himself with anything in the house; everything he owns he has entrusted to my care. 9 No one is greater in this house than I am. My master has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?” 10 And though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be with her. Genesis 39:6-10 (NIV)
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    40 分
  • Bloom: Everything You Need | Week 3 | Add Knowledge to your faith and to your goodness

    Bloom: Everything You Need | Week 3 | Add Knowledge to your faith and to your goodness
    2026/04/26
    For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 1 Peter 1:5


    What does make every effort mean?

    The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. Proverbs 9:10 (NIV)


    Knowledge = the facts about your faith in Jesus.

    Learn God’s Word so that you can live God’s Word so you can be confident you are doing God’s Will

    How can you make every effort to add knowledge?

    Get a Bible that you can understand

    • English Standard Version (ESV)
    • New American Standard Version -1995 (NASB)
    • New International Version (NIV)
    • New Living Translation (NLT)

    The Bible was written to be read out loud

    The Bible was written to be understood, but it takes work

    Be like Apollos

    24 Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was a learned man, with a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures. 25 He had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and he spoke with great fervor and taught about Jesus accurately, though he knew only the baptism of John. 26 He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they invited him to their home and explained to him the way of God more adequately. Acts 18:24-26 (NIV)For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins. 2 Peter 1:8-9 (NIV)
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    36 分
  • Bloom: Everything You Need | Week 2 | Bloom In Moral Excellence

    Bloom: Everything You Need | Week 2 | Bloom In Moral Excellence
    2026/04/19


    What does it mean to be a "straight arrow"? In this sermon, Didi digs into 2 Peter 1:3-5 and the call to add goodness to our faith, moral excellence, nobility, and an incorruptible character. Using Daniel as our example, we explore how God's power, combined with our every effort, shapes us into people whose integrity stands out.
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    42 分
  • Bloom: Everything You Need | Week 1 | From Knowing to Growing

    Bloom: Everything You Need | Week 1 | From Knowing to Growing
    2026/04/12

    In this episode, we kick off our new series Bloom by diving into 2 Peter 1:1–4 and exploring the difference between simply knowing about God and truly knowing Him through a lived, relational experience. It’s possible to have all the right information and still miss the transformation.

    Peter writes with urgency, knowing his time is short, reminding believers that we already have everything we need for a godly life through Christ. The question is: are we just hearers of the Word, or are we doers?

    Aaron unpacks:

    • The difference between head knowledge and heart transformation
    • Why your faith is just as “precious” as anyone else’s
    • How real spiritual growth actually happens
    • What it looks like to move from hearing God’s Word to living it out

    If you’ve ever felt stuck in your faith or wondered how to grow spiritually, this message will challenge and encourage you to take the next step.
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    41 分