Showing posts with label love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label love. Show all posts
Sunday, July 26, 2026

Over a dozen directions for love in the New Testament

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The New Testament has many passages about love, everything from love of God (good) to love of money (not). As a current research project has...
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Sunday, December 07, 2025

Long-time married folks' best advice on staying married

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It is rare that I take inspiration from the comment section of another conversation. But I think the content here merits it. This post asked...
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Sunday, October 01, 2023

Learning love from Jesus: The Gospel of Matthew

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Learning to love is part of learning to follow Christ. This week I am looking at ways that Jesus shows love, reviewing the Gospel of Matthew...
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Sunday, January 30, 2022

Loving the world, one thing at a time

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 "For God so loved the world ..." -- John 3:16 I know that there are times when the scriptures speak of the world in its corrupt s...
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Sunday, October 13, 2019

"You shall love the Lord your God"

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"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....
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Sunday, March 15, 2015

Love and the problem of commanding it

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It's such a human reaction: we're ordered to do something, and our first reaction is to say "No." We say it with all the t...
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Sunday, March 08, 2015

Love with mind: The value of remembering

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In my quest to explore the mind's role in love, I'm considering the value of remembering. Here are things we might remember: * T...
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Sunday, February 15, 2015

Love with mind and strength: Insight and determination

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It is just a fact of human life that people have the capacity for good in them somewhere -- even if it is undeveloped. It goes with being cr...
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Sunday, February 08, 2015

"Knowledge becomes love": Part 2

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When we talk about loving with "heart, soul, mind, and strength", it's not always clear how "mind" fits into the pic...
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Monday, February 02, 2015

"Knowledge becomes love": Part 1

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I wanted to pursue in more depth the ancient Christian saying "knowledge becomes love". Its first use seems most suited to knowing...
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Sunday, January 25, 2015

Treasures of the heart and soul

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Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart brings forth good things: and an evil...
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Sunday, November 16, 2014

Seeing God ... and seeing anyone at all

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Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. - Jesus The most beautiful of all blessings is reserved for the pure in heart: see...
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Sunday, September 28, 2014

Learn to love our neighbor: The most basic forms of love

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As Christians, we're on a mission to join God in loving the world. So when we talk to someone or meet someone, where do we start? What a...
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Sunday, August 31, 2014

Pet Theory: Our hearts and minds grow in proportion to ...

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Reflections on how to love God and neighbor with heart, soul, mind, and strength ...  I have a pet theory: Our hearts and minds grow in pr...
Sunday, August 24, 2014

Is love is blind? How it sees the good in us all

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(Some thoughts on how to meet another person, and to view each other.)  They say that love is blind, and there is some truth to that. Love...
Thursday, November 10, 2011

If I Corinthians 13 were written today

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If I Corinthians 13 were written today, what would Paul have used as his examples? Just imagining: If I study my Bible every day and have pr...
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Sunday, July 24, 2011

Euthyphro's dilemma: An ancient debate and the greatest commandment

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There is an ancient dilemma that goes back to the days of Plato, possibly even the days of Socrates. Back in those days the ancient Greeks s...
Saturday, July 10, 2010

Getting the most bang for your charity buck

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Times being what they are, here are a few tips for stretching our charity dollars. If you have any other tips, please share. Not sure what t...
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Sunday, March 07, 2010

"How much more" -- loving your enemies

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What if we apply the same reasoning to Jesus' teaching on loving our enemies? I have met people who act as though we are to treat our en...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Love and Forgiveness

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Every time I think I have passed a milestone in forgiveness, I find myself later second-guessing whether I have really made any progress at ...
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