The Bleeding Woman
Each Saturday during Lent, we will explore a story or profile of peace in action: people who are acting as shalom-bearers in our world.
Continue ReadingHumility toward Others
The church has been at its best when it has not lorded power over others but humbly served them, showing the way and the love and the humility of God become flesh.
Continue ReadingEnds and Means
But the peace that comes from God does not come from us straining to make our plans happen. This doesn’t mean we don’t plan or dream, but we do so open-handedly.
Continue ReadingFalse Piety
In Isaiah 58, God, through his prophet, calls out the people of Israel for their false piety. It’s true they were fasting and acting penitent, but it was all a show.
Continue ReadingKingdom Love
Our challenge is to live up to the expectations of sacrificial, selfless love that God has commanded of those who call him Father.
Continue ReadingA Posture of Service
The love of Jesus is a given for us, at least cognitively. We are so comfortable with the idea Jesus loves us we may even take it for granted.
Continue ReadingEnemy Love
In Christ’s most famous sermon, Jesus commands a concept that is oxymoronic for us: enemy love.
Continue ReadingLove
It is always easier to define a word not just by depending on a conceptual understanding but by showing an action. So it is with love.
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