God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.
01221 – Good Works
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00994 – Finding Peace with Your Neighbor
There is nothing that makes us love a person so much as praying for him or her… By considering yourself an advocate with God for your neighbors and friends, you would never find it hard to be at peace with them.
00964 – Love Places Us Inescapably in Time
The principle of neighborly love encapsulates the balance between time and eternity which is vital to the practice of true hope. Since love is not, for an ideal human being, living in a state of abstract perfection but rather for someone in particular, someone...
00950 – The Generosity of Believers in Christ
The generosity of a believer is a response to Jesus Christ and never merely a “human” virtue. The gospel is about the generosity of God: God owed us nothing, and yet out of sheer enthusiasm for us and desire of our well-being, God sent Jesus Christ… Through the...
00809 – Worship: An It-is-Well-with-My-Soul Experience
In worship there is divine action. In our celebration of Christ, something happens. There is an action from above: the Holy Spirit delivers Christ and the benefits of Christ’s death and resurrection to the worshipers. In other words, in worship our relationship with...
00716 – Worship and the Gospel
Worship dare not be glib or superficial, ought not to dispense false assurances or manipulate emotions. Instead, genuine worship always offers the true hope of the Gospel—neither entertainment nor escapism, neither diversion nor another sort of consumerism, but the...
00498 – There are No Ordinary People
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations—these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit—immortal horrors...
00486 – The Kingdom of God
We can define the Kingdom of God as the redemptive presence of God. The redemptive presence of God can be found in everyday personal experiences. Whenever people love one another, bear one another’s burdens, work to build up a just and peaceful community—wherever...
00368 – Peace Starts in the Heart
If there is to be peace in the world, there must be peace in the nations. If there is to be peace in the nations, there must be peace in the cities. If there is to be peace in the cities, there must be peace between neighbors. If there is to be peace between...
00362 – Love Others, Period!
Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody’s business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy if...