We are here to love each other. That is why you are alive. That is what life is for.
02060 – Why We’re Here
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02053 – Love: The Reason I Exist
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.
02051 – Loving Your Neighbor
You cannot love your neighbor while supporting systems that crush, exploit, and dehumanize them. You cannot love your neighbor while accepting less for them and their family than you do for you and your own.
02035 – Like Water Source in a Drought
When you offer love, joy, peace, patience, or kindness to the world around you, it’s like providing a water source in a relentless, scorching drought.
02030 – Good Theology Maintains Two Freedoms
Until I went to seminary, no one had taught me how to clean the lens of my awareness and perception. Studying the philosophy of Franciscan John Duns Scotus (1266–1308) for four years had a profound effect on me. Duns Scotus taught (admittedly in rarefied Latin) that...
02018 – Love Came Down at Christmas
Love came down at Christmas,love all lovely, love divine;love was born at Christmas--star and angels gave the sign. Worship we the Godhead,love incarnate, love divine;worship we our Jesus--but wherewith for sacred sign? Love shall be our token,love be yours and love...
02013 – A Million Reasons
If you want to, you can find a million reasons to hate life and be angry at the world. Or, if you want to, you can find a million reasons to love life and be happy. Choose wisely.
02012 – Complex World has Staggering Problems
The world is complex and facing staggering problems. It needs Christians who are up to the task of making a constructive contribution, intellectually ready for the challenges that humanity faces, deeply motivated to love God and neighbor with all our minds. from After...
02007 – Love vs. Hate
We cannot pray in love and live in hate and still think we are worshipping God.
02006 – Things that Matter
Earlier in my life I thought the things that mattered were the things that you could see, like your car, your house, your wealth, your property, your office. But as I’ve grown older I’ve become convinced that the things that matter most are the things that you can’t...