Scripture repeatedly and emphatically commands us to live in love (Eph. 5:2) and to put love above and before all things (Col. 3:14, 1 Peter 4:8). It tells us that if we love, we fulfill everything else the Lord requires of us (Gal. 5:14). But that if we don’t love, nothing else we do is…
Letter 28 Themes: Fear of and blessings of death; spiritual perseverance; middle aged prosperity and adversity; worldly attachments; spiritual attrition, earthly utopia. Letter 29 Themes: Cowardice; pride; hatred; courage; despair; God’s motive for creating a dangerous world; superstitions involving hypotheticals; relying on God alone. Letter 30 Themes: Duty, purpose, pride, cowardice, fatigue, peevishness, disappointment, total…
From the book Relational Holiness – Responding to the Call of Love by Thomas J. Oord and Michael Lodahl “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” Inigo Montoya – Princess Bride. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wujVMIYzYXg “The very credentials these people are waving around as something special, I’m tearing up…
From the book: “Uncomfortable: The Awkward and Essential Challenge of Christian Community” by Brett McCracken From Relational Holiness by Thomas Jay Oord and Michael Lodahl “When you love others, you complete what the law has been after all along… When you add up everything in the law code, the sum total is love.” (Romans 13:8-10, The…
From the book: “Uncomfortable: The Awkward and Essential Challenge of Christian Community” by Brett McCracken “I love Jesus but not the church.” “I’ll go to church but only as long as it meets my needs.” (p. 179) How often have you heard the statement “I am spiritual, just not religious”? As stated in last week’s…
