Tag: love
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How can I love people I don’t like?
It’s hard to love everyone. It’s almost impossible to like everyone. Yet, there are ways that we can develop a more Jesus-like heart towards those we find difficult. God has been challenging me about loving my enemies. “But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be…
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Intimacy with God
A visitor to my website recently contacted me to ask “What do you mean when you talk about experiencing intimacy with God? How does it feel being intimate with God / Jesus and is it enough?” I thought these were excellent questions, so here’s my attempt at an answer. I guess our culture often defines…
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Picture This Thought – All sorts [The body of Christ]
A 3-minute reflection on the community of the church as the Body of Christ, valuing everyone and loving our enemies. For more about the politics of enemy love, I recommend ‘Sympathy For Jonah‘ by David Benjamin Blower.
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A furry lesson in love
Five weeks ago we got a cat. For a couple of nights before we collected him, I didn’t sleep very well as various thoughts were going through my mind. What if he’s aggressive? What if he shreds all our furniture? What if he’s sick everywhere? What if he doesn’t like us? What if he stinks?…
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Loving God
“Jesus replied, ‘“Love the Lord you God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment.” (Matt 22: 37 – 38) What does it mean to love God? Maybe some of us would struggle to answer that question. When I was younger I…
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Allowing our Father to clean up the mess
Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” The other day I saw a little boy running along and he tripped and fell flat on his face. He was covered in mud and gravel with blood all over his knees and snot…
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