Jesus Christ did not get up out the grave and show us the way to love for you to exploit faith to win arguments and secure power. If that is your faith, you have lost Jesus.
02875 – Have We Lost Jesus?
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02868 – “Hymn for the Hurting”
Everything hurts,Our hearts shadowed and strange,Minds made muddied and mute.We carry tragedy, terrifying and true.And yet none of it is new;We knew it as home,As horror,As heritage.Even our childrenCannot be children,Cannot be. Everything hurts.It’s a hard time to be...
02845 – When Love is the Way…
When love is the way, poverty will become history.When love is the way, the Earth will be a sanctuary.When love is the way, we will lay down our swords and shields, down by the riverside, to study war no more. from "Sermon from the Royal Wedding"
02834 – God is Sovereign
I have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He is a God of love and mercy and...
02831 – The Pretense of Love
Naturally, since its designed to hide its opposite, the pretense chosen by the evil is most commonly the pretense of love. from People of the Lie
02830 – “The Original Sin of the Church”
If America’s original sin is slavery, the original sin of the church is anti-Judaism and antisemitism. Before the New Testament was fully written. we see evidence of it... If you look at the passion accounts in the four Gospels in chronological order, you see Rome...
02817 – Love is the Destination
Love is the destination, the telos, the goal–but we learn that we never arrive. We drive in the direction of love, but our destination keeps receding beyond the horizon. Yet we dare not set our course for any other destination. from Introducing Christian Ethics
02815 – Choosing Love
When we choose to love, we choose to face death, and grief and loss, again and again and again. Just as much as we choose the friendlier parts of love. It's all there, present and contained, in everything.
02804 – Who’s Job is It?
It is the Holy Spirit's job to convict, God's job to judge and my job to love.
02798 – Family isn’t Always Blood
Family isn’t always blood, it’s the people in your life who want you in theirs: the ones who accept you for who you are, the ones who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what.