Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
02478 – Bear with Each Other
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02334 – Bothered Much?
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
02300 – Kindness & Understanding
Kindness begins with the understanding that we all struggle.
02261 – Hail Mary, Full of GRACE
When we think about the Annunciation, this scene between the angel Gabriel and Mary, we think of the faith it took for her to believe that she would conceive by the power of the Holy Spirit and that her son, the illegitimate child of an insignificant girl, really...
02168 – Christian Leaders & Christian Traditions
Deepening our sensitivity to the historical nature of Christian tradition and the mediating role of Christian leaders can help us think much more clearly about our realities and responsibilities today. We can situate ourselves within the flow of Christian history,...
02155 – Doubting God vs. Doubting My Understanding of God
It dawned on me that there’s a difference between doubting God and doubting my understanding of God. Would I be able to doubt my understanding of God while simultaneously trusting God beyond my understanding? In a strange way, that question for the first time in my...
02085 – How Do You Understand God?
If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, or self-righteous, or if it led you...
02052 – Judging vs. Understanding
It's easy to judge. It's more difficult to understand. Understanding requires compassion, patience, and a willingness to believe that good hearts sometimes choose poor methods. Through judging, we separate. Through understanding, we grow.
01999 – Onward in My Journey
I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flameAnd every time I pass that way I always hear my nameThen onward in my journey I come to understandThat every hair is numbered like every grain of sand.
01995 – Stewardship is About More than Money
When we limit our understanding of stewardship as pertaining only to money we fail to comprehend the full impact of its true power to change not only us, but the world.