Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.
04271 – Becoming a Child Again at Christmastime
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04148 – What Did Jesus Mean?
To read the Gospels in the spirit with which they were written, it is not enough to ask what Jesus did or said. We must ask what Jesus meant by his strange words and deeds. For example, whenever the subject of poverty comes up in some circles, someone is bound to...
04049 – When Power Becomes an Idol
When gentleness starts to sound like a weakness to us Christians rather than a fruit of the Spirit, that's when we know power has become an idol for us.
03943 – Spiritual & Subversive Acts
Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.
03743 – Addressing the Disaffiliators
I dislike your speaking of yourselves as though you were the only [ones] who know and taught the Gospel; ...But what I most dislike is your littleness of love...your want [lack] of union...your want of meekness, gentleness, long suffering; your impatience of...
03495 – What Nonviolence Means
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.-------------------------------------------------------Gender-inclusive paraphrase: Nonviolence means...
03406 – The Christian Snob
The Christmas spirit does not shine out in the Christian snob. For the Christmas spirit is the spirit of those who, like their Master, live their whole lives on the principle of making themselves poor—spending and being spent—to enrich their fellow humans, giving...
03228 – Our Leaning Side
A pastor of a small church would occasionally call on one gentleman to pray, and every time this one particular guy would pray, he would end with the strangest statement, “And, oh Lord, prop us up on our leaning side.” Finally, the pastor pulled him aside, and he...
03171 – The Healing Touch
You have the healing touch, even if you may not realize it. It is not a supernatural gift, but a common gift, one given to us all. We are born to be healers, along with other vocations, to help us navigate this world as vulnerable beings. We have the power to hear one...
03027 – Theology 101
Theology 101: The question should never be, "Is this action leftist or right-wing...liberal or conservative...socialist or capitalist? The question should be, "Does this action love my neighbor...look out for their interests more than my own...manifest the fruit of...