When we speak God things TO God about God, and when we speak good things TO God about our neighbors, then we will have good things FROM God to speak to our neighbors. The Greek word for “bless” (eulogeo) literally means good (eu-) words (logos). We can bless people simply by ...
as a fire is meant for burning with a bright and warming flame. So the church is meant for mission giving glory to God’s name, not to preach our creeds or customs, but to build a bridge of care. We join hands across the nations, finding neighbors everywhere, right?
Psalm 95 1 Come, let us sing to the Lord! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. 2 Let us come to him with thanksgiving 2 Let us come to him with thanksgiving. Let us sing psalms of praise to him. 3 For the Lord is a great God, a great King above all gods. ...
58. In love and joy God calls us together. And so we meet this day, as friends, as neighbors, as sisters and brothers in Christ. Called together by God, we bring our offerings to God: Our songs, our hearts, our prayers, our lives. Grateful for this opportunity to give and receive,...
Filling each day with songs of worship keeps my heart and my mind on the majestic and glorious, a place where, as followers of Christ, we’ll be camped for all eternity. That leaves little room for the hard circumstances of this world to drag me down. And when they do still manage to...
A world based on dignity and love for our neighbors Desperately needing a reason to carry on. Quiet our hearts O Father, that we may hear you Still our anxieties that we may share Your love Banish our feeble, misguided understandings of ...
I might add. Even though their monotheism often got them into trouble with their pagan neighbors, Jews refused to worship any god other than the one true LORD. Yet along came the earliest Christians, apparently faithful Jews who actually offered worship to Jesus, one they knew to have been ...
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and called for us to love our neighbors no matter who they might be. “It matters what effects these interpretations of religion have in the world,” Buttigieg tells me. “Do they serve to heal or to harm? Do they serve to unify or to divide? That tells us something about the truth ...
talked of any mission from Heaven. All his irregularities, real and supposed, date from after his fiftieth year, when the good Kadijah died. All his “ambition,” seemingly, had been, hitherto, to live an honest life; his “fame,” the mere good opinion of neighbors that knew him, had...