Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
03701 – What Love Does
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03699 – Because of You
At your funeral or at your 90th birthday they're not going to say, "I am so grateful to him or her because he/she was happy." Living lovingly toward others will definitely have moments of happiness, but one might do well to understand that it is not the happy moments...
03692 – God’s Vision of Shalom
Our world is intended to reflect God's vision of Shalom, the beloved community, the peaceable realm, in which joy and laughter, love and harmony guide the affairs of persons and nations.
03689 – Specialness
"You are special, and so is your neighbor”— that part is essential: that you're not the only special person in the world. The person you happen to be with at the moment is loved, too.
03682 – Agree to Love
To love, my brothers and sisters, does not mean we have to agree. But maybe agreeing to love is the greatest agreement. And the only one that ultimately matters, because it makes a future possible. from Love is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times
03678 – Love is Lost
Between what is said and not meantAnd what is meant and not saidMost of love is lost.
03670 – How God Treats Those whom God Loves
If I take Easter as the starting point, the one incontrovertible fact about how God treats those whom he loves, then human history becomes the contradiction and Easter a preview of ultimate reality.----------------------------------Gender-neutral version: If I take...
03665 – Critiquing Christianity
Jesus laying down his life out of love for the world rather than using all cosmic and political power to force the world to obey him is the eternal critique of any form of Christianity that seeks to secure power in order to ensure that others conform to its will.
03648 – Following Jesus…or Not?
When our Christianity begins to look like vengeance, animosity, and hostility towards the world, rather than love, humility, and compassion, that is when we know we are following someone other than Jesus.
03642 – Lost Love
Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.