Christianity should sound like, "my beliefs cause me to see profound value in every single person," not "each person's value is measured by how closely they align with my personal beliefs."
04154 – Christianity Should Sound Like…
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03782 – Vulnerability and Courage
Vulnerability is not a weakness; it's our greatest measure of courage.
03204 – Greatest Danger: Fail to Love
The spiritual stature of a person's life is measured by love, which in the end remains “the criterion for the definitive decision about a human life's worth or lack thereof”. Yet some believers think that it consists in the imposition of their own ideologies upon...
03154 – Grace is Breath
Grace is the breath that immediately follows a failure, the breath that reminds us life is not ended by one mistake or measured by one moment. Grace is the breath with which we make amends and start again. Grace, like breath, should never be wasted.
02567 – OUR Story
My assumption is that the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all.
02546 – Measuring Prosperity of Nations
We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires, but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, the efficiency of the public schools, and the number of people who can and do read worthwhile books.
02515 – How God Measures Our Lives
God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love. from Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God
02212 – Measuring Life
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
02201 – Measuring Success
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.------------------------------------------Gender-inclusive version: I have learned that success is...
01624 – The Vine & Branches Metaphor
The communal life envisioned in the vine metaphor raises a strong challenge to contemporary Western models of individual autonomy and privatism. At the heart of the Johannine model is social interrelationship and corporate accountability. The vine and branches...