Love Covers a Multitude of Sins

As we continue our Real Love series, our Congregational Care Pastor, Nathan Hooper, will be bringing the Word this week. Before Sunday, I encourage you to spend some time in 1 Peter 4:7–11, where we’re reminded that love covers a multitude of sins.

Series: Real Love
Message 4: Love Covers a Multitude of Sins
Text: 1 Peter 4:7-11
Nathan Hooper
Harvest Alliston
May 3, 2026

In light of Christ’s imminent return, I will…

…pray with clarity (v.7)

Prayer catapults us onto the frontier of the spiritual life….it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father…In prayer, real prayer, we begin to think God’s thoughts after him; to desire the things he desires, to love the things he loves, to will the things he wills. Progressively, we are taught to see things from his point of view.
– Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline

…love deeply (v.8)

Acts 2:44-46

John 13:34-35

Where love abounds in a fellowship of Christians, many small offences, and even some large ones, are readily overlooked and forgotten. But where love is lacking, every word is viewed with suspicion, every action is liable to misunderstanding, and conflicts abound — to Satan’s perverse delight.
– Wayne Grudem

…give freely (v.9)

Matthew 25:35

Hebrews 13:2

…serve joyfully (v.10)

The thing we would remember from meeting a truly gospel-humble person is how much they seemed to be totally interested in us. … Gospel-humility is not needing to think about myself. Not needing to connect things with myself. … The truly gospel-humble person is a self-forgetful person whose ego is just like his or her toes. It just works. It doesn’t draw attention to itself.
– Tim Keller, The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness

Because of the reciprocal nature within the corporate body of Christ, fellowship is required to allow realization of a joyous and sustained level of life in Christ that is normally impossible to attain by all our individual effort, no matter how vigorous and sustained.
– Dallas Willard, The Spirit of the Disciplines

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

…glorify God continually (v.11)