Love and forgiveness are often confused with each other. The confusion results in loss. The accompanying photo illustrates this...
Recently, someone spoke about his experience of deepening despondency and self-recrimination. He realized he was totally centered on...
How do you experience relief, even healing, from the unpleasant emotions and burdens that flow from a damaged relationship? Many...
When another person breaks relationship – cutting you deeply and stepping way over the line – what are you to do? Consulting our...
You're standing in cold water up to your waist. Your arms are wrapped tightly against your chest as you resist the plunge into the...
Karl Barth (1886-1968) was perhaps the most influential theologian of the 20th Century. On reconciliation, he wrote: To fail...
Forgiveness is at or near the heart of God. It is difficult to name a subject more important to the life of Christians. And yet, it is...
When God says to you, “I love you,”—what does He mean? I have a few questions about love—and not because I’m a hopeless unromantic. ...
Photo credit: “Hand of an extraordinary man” by J. Rafael Pintos-Lopez (2007) from his website at...
Does a command to love someone seem strange to you? A young mother loves her infant. A young husband loves his wife. Neither the...
We explored the greatest of the commandments in the previous post. Now we turn to the second greatest. To refresh our memories, here...
If you knew you would die within the next 24 hours, what would you do, who (if anyone) would you spend the time with, and what would...
Is this a strange title, or what? Let me begin by introducing you to the indicative-imperative principle. Consider parents who demand...
How can we love like Jesus? This is the question this series has been working toward answering. “So, what’s the answer?” This...
How does a grapevine help us answer the question this series explores? “How can you love like Jesus?” Jesus intends that you and...
How can you enrich your understanding with word or phrase studies? Our focus is agapē-love. What is agapē-love, and how can you...
At times, the English language lets us down. These are two of those times. First, in Greek, the 16 qualities of love in 1 Corinthians...
By my count, nine of the 16 qualities of love in 1 Corinthians 13 are negative—what love is not. We explored the initial two qualities...
The group laughed as they concluded how naïve and gullible Christians must be. This imaginary discussion included Friedrich Nietzsche,...
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