People are all about using the Bible to make laws until they get to the words of Jesus... "Love your enemies.""The first shall be last.""Lay down your sword.""Set the oppressed free.""You cannot serve God and money.""Sell all your possessions and give the money to the...
It is not the task of the church to "Make America Great Again." The contemporary task of the church is to make Christianity countercultural again. And once we untether Jesus from the interests of empire, we begin to see just how countercultural and radical Jesus'...
I've also learned there's no point in actively trying to defeat your enemies. Trash takes itself out every single time.
I dislike your speaking of yourselves as though you were the only [ones] who know and taught the Gospel; ...But what I most dislike is your littleness of love...your want [lack] of union...your want of meekness, gentleness, long suffering; your impatience of...
There is no amount of pain you could inflict on your enemies that would heal your own pain.
God loves you! And God's love is so great, God loves your enemies, too.
Loving your enemies has the deep spiritual benefit of enabling us to set our own course in life rather than constantly being in a posture of angry response to what other people do. There is freedom along this route, but it requires considerable internal strength and...
When you take the Way of Jesus seriously, you encounter resistance. Jesus calls us to love our enemies, but society kills our enemies. Jesus calls us to Jubilee, but ours is a nation of debt. Jesus calls us to befriend the ostracized, but ours is a society of...
When you think of faith as a war to be won, you will see people as enemies to be conquered. When you think of faith as a world to be explored, you will see people as neighbors to be loved.
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?