Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you. Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you.
03156 – Speaking & Listening
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02561 – Renewed by God’s Mercy
God's mercy can make even the driest land become a garden, can restore life to dry bones (Ezekiel 37:1-14). ...Let us be renewed by God's mercy; let us be loved by Jesus; let us enable the power of His love to transform our lives; and let us become agents of this...
02525 – Science vs. Religion
It is customary to blame secular science and anti-religious philosophy for the eclipse of religion in modern society. It would be more honest to blame religion for its own defeats. Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull,...
02451 – What Children Need
Children need at least one person in their life who thinks the sun rises and sets on them, someone who delights in their existence and loves them unconditionally.
02427 – Freedom Requires Overcoming
If you're ever going to be free, you'll have to overcome the love of wealth and the fear of death.
02421 – Right, Love, Truth & Strength
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
02404 – No Gatekeepers to Jesus
The good news is that there are no gatekeepers to Jesus. People try to be. Pastors, theologians, churches, and others police theology, enforce legalism, and criticize people's faith. But God loves everyone even when Christians don't.
02395 – New Paradigm of Imagery for God
The God imaged by Jesus exerts no dominating supremacy. In Christ, we see an image of a God who is not armed with lightning bolts but with basin and towel, who spewed not threats but good news for all, who rode not a warhorse but a donkey, weeping in compassion for...
02386 – Peacemaking Doesn’t Mean Passivity
Peacemaking doesn't mean passivity. It is the act of interrupting injustice without mirroring injustice, the act of disarming evil without destroying the evildoer, the act of finding a third way that is neither fight nor flight but the careful, arduous pursuit of...
02384 – Finding Our Place in the Cosmos
The whole cosmos is a Self-giving of God. And we will find our place in the great dance only to the extent that we love.