Christian Values: Love I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. John 13:34a-35 Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, passion fierce … Continue reading Christian Values: Love
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Christian Values: Justice
Christian Values: Justice Alas for you who desire the day of the Lord! Why do you want the day of the Lord? It is darkness, not light; as if someone fled from a lion, and was met by a bear; or went into the house and rested a hand against the wall, and was bitten … Continue reading Christian Values: Justice
Christian Values: Service
Christian Values: Service Render service with enthusiasm, as to the Lord and not to men and women, knowing that whatever good we do, we will receive the same again from the Lord, whether we are slaves or free. -- Ephesians 6:7-8 You're gonna have to serve somebody, It may be the devil or it may … Continue reading Christian Values: Service
Christian Values: Peace
Christian Values: Peace Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. Matthew 5:9 The importance of peace in Christianity can hardly be overstated. Of the many desirable characteristics the Bible encourages, only three are referenced more frequently, according to research done by Ben MacConnell on Christian values. In both the Old … Continue reading Christian Values: Peace
Christian Values: Happiness
Christian Values: Happiness For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than live in the tents of wickedness. For the Lord God is a sun and shield; he bestows favor and honor. No good thing does the Lord withhold … Continue reading Christian Values: Happiness
Christian Values
Christian Values For learning about wisdom and instruction, for understanding words of insight, for gaining instruction in wise dealing, righteousness, justice, and equity; to teach shrewdness to the simple, knowledge and prudence to the young – let the wise also hear and gain in learning, and the discerning acquire skill, to understand a proverb and … Continue reading Christian Values
Deja Vu, All Over Again
Déjà vu, All Over Again Since we are God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of mortals. Acts 17:29 Do you recognize the people in either of these pictures? I will give you a hint – both … Continue reading Deja Vu, All Over Again
Poor Stewardship
Poor Stewardship Should not shepherds feed the sheep? You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fatlings; but you do not feed the sheep. You have not strengthened the weak, you have not healed the sick, you have not bound up the injured, you have not brought back the strayed, … Continue reading Poor Stewardship
Compassionate Emptiness
Compassionate Emptiness Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form, he … Continue reading Compassionate Emptiness
Won’t You be My Neighbor?
Won’t You be My Neighbor? You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second (command) is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these. Mark 12:30-31 Love isn’t … Continue reading Won’t You be My Neighbor?
Contemplating Grace 