Works of Love – Week 3(b) – Love Builds Up
Only when we presuppose the existence of love in the other do we have the foundation in which to build up the love in the other.
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Works of Love – Week 3(a) – Love’s Hidden Need
Our Love is known by its Works of Love just as tree is know by its fruit. Luke 6:44
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Works of Love – Week 2(b) – Love the Person You See
The task is not to find the loveable object, but to find the object before you loveable. To love is to love the person one sees.
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Works of Love – Week 2(a) – The Greater Love
To paraphrase Jesus (Matt. 7:24-27), a relationship can either be built on the rock of God’s love or the shifting sands of human preference.
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Works of Love – Week 1(b) – Neighbor Love
This duty to love is blind to the identity of the beloved. Because of the imperative “shall”, this love is given unconditionally and equally to all persons without any distinctions. When we do our duty to love, we find our neighbor.
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Works of Love – Week 1(a) – God’s Triumphant Love
God becomes human not only to show his love for us but so we may fully reciprocate that love towards him.
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Ecclesiastes 2 – The Perspective of Old Age
But Christianly understood death is by no means the last thing of all, hence it is only a little event within that which is all, an eternal life. – Sören Kierkegaard
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Imitation of Christ – Book 1, Ch.5-9, pt.2
One of the great themes in The Imitation is that of simplicity. Within Chapter 5, á Kempis writes of needing to have simplicity in interpreting Scripture – “for we should look for profit in the writings rather than subtle expressions.”
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