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Friends, It's Pastor Martin coming to you with the word in a nutshell. The word in a nutshell. Today's word is one we are very familiar with love. Love has been so abused and misused, sometimes we lose the proper meaning. But people of faith, God calls us to love one another, to love our brother as ourselves. We are first commanded to love God with all our heart, with all our mind, with all our soul, but to love our neighbor as ourselves. Today, I want us to bring that very practical. How do you love one another? Relationships that you have. In particular, let's talk about husbands and wives, spouses. How do you demonstrate this action work to love to one another? One of the great writers of our day and our time, Dr. Gary Chapman, wrote about the five languages of love. He talked about loving each other the way the other person understands how to be loved or how they receive love. One of the five love languages is affirmation. If your partner is somebody who likes to be affirmed, encouraged, motivated, words of compliments, then that is their way of receiving love. Another language of love is gifts. If that person in her life knows their love by the gifts you give them and the things you give them, then that is their language of love. Others may think of love to be service. What you do for them, helping them around the house, maybe, you know, doing the dishes after they've done cooking. That is the language of love that person understands. We also think of physical touch, affection. There are people who want to, you know, just feel that closeness with you. If that is the language of love of your partner, then rolling hands, you know, cuddling, all of those kinds of things is how they understand that you are loving them. And then finally, you also want to look at love and spending quality time, quality time. If that is how that person receives love and that is their love language, then if you do all other things and you get too busy and you're not spending quality time with them, they don't think that you love them. So this week, find out that significant person in your life. What is their love language? How are you demonstrating that today? And what is your own love language? Do they know that? This week, find out your partner, your significant other, their love language. Love is the word in a nutshell this week. Let's think about that.