Enemy Love
In Christ’s most famous sermon, Jesus commands a concept that is oxymoronic for us: enemy love.
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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.
Continue ReadingA Moral Imperative
In addition to being part of the fruit of the Spirit, joy is seen as a moral imperative – a command; to live contrary to this command is self-defeating.
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God – the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit – delights himself in his children, and he takes joy in the setting free of the captives!
Continue ReadingSabbath: Psalm 4
Take time this Sabbath to meditate on today’s passage from Psalm 4, reflecting on how it relates to the fruit of the Spirit from this week: peace and joy.
Continue ReadingKingdom Joy
The perspective that comes from being filled with the Spirit is one that can produce joy even in the midst of the worst of circumstances.
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It seems too often that the Church defines itself by the things we are opposed to, that are forbidden, that are against the rules or the law.
Continue ReadingGarden People
Paul reminds us that God’s desire is for reconciliation and peace and that he accomplished this through the death of Jesus Christ on the cross.
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