(From Love: The Foundation, Chapter 8) The Bible is not a dead book. The breath of God is alive and well within it. That indwelling—the Spirit of love—converses with the voice of every age. Of the Christian, it asks, are you what a humble, merciful person looks like in such a time and place? Of …
Faith, Hope, but Especially Love: 1 Corinthians 13, Paraphrased Read More »
Selfishness, hate, even evil aren’t all bad. If a person is only concerned with the bottom line, then navigating life with the devil whispering in one ear frequently pays solid dividends. If a utilitarian end is the only concern, then a questionable means is often provides a reliable way to get there. In the end, …
Humility is the gateway to Christian love. This begs the question: How can we tell if we are humble enough to walk love’s path well?
During the late 70s and early 80s, a strange inversion happened. Suddenly, good meant bad and bad meant good. To say this car or that person was bad was a positive. It was followed by the negative assurance that only the good die young or follow the rules when they most need to be broken. …
Recently, I was speaking with a fellow Sunday school teacher about adding an emphasis on humility to the curriculum. “But how would you teach it to the younger children,” she asked. I immediately realize the task might be harder than I had considered. But several hours of thinking and multiple blind alleys later, I was …
Feel free to download LOVE: A MANIFESTO in blue here or in yellow here. Are you a religious leader looking for a safe way to discuss important social issues affecting your group, congregation or the church? Are you searching for a path to do so without alienating the very people you are trying to reach? The …
Over the next few weeks, I want you to try an experiment. Pay close attention to the dialogue that takes place in your head as you talk to yourself. If you’re anything like me, then I’m betting you’ll eventually notice a pattern: When you hear yourself internally verbalizing some form of the phrase, “But that’s …
Losing Our Humanity Begins with the illusion of Ownership Read More »
We all know people who think entirely too much of themselves. No one likes that kind of over-the-top, “holier than though” arrogance. Not even God, who firmly states that He hates a “haughty” person and that pride inevitably leads to a spiritual fall. Yet, the Bible also tells us that as Spiritual men and women …
Confident or Arrogant, What’s your Belief Style? Read More »
The concept of love is useless as a building block of life until a person realizes that, like the atom, it has three important subparts. To move Christian spiritually beyond alchemy, hearsay, guesswork — perhaps even outright lies — we need to understand the internal structure of love.
