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When Jesus ascends, he does so, bearing gifts for you.
God seeks us out and desires to give us more than a friendly smile or an understanding look. He seeks us out to embrace us and converse with us.
The title “peacemakers” is not ours except as we tell and retell his peacemaking story.
Ascertaining the what and how of the Church greatly factor into the very purpose of the Church, that is, they essentially answer the question why the Church?
We’ve become experts at making deals with God.
It is that love, finally, which comes back again and again, not as an afterthought, but as the underlying theme of the entire section.
God cares for us because we’re created in his image, but he also cares for us because the second person of the Trinity, the Son, became one of us.
The Church, having turned the Gospel into a moral performance, a judgemental system of do's and do-nots, must come to grips with the fact that the culture has moved on.
He always puts our life and salvation first. He’ll never accept our defeat. He’ll never quit on us. He’ll never leave us fallen and alone.
In Christ we are already dead to sin and the eternal consequences of sin. “There is no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus,” writes Paul (Romans 8:1).
Don’t get me wrong, I always read the comments on my own posts, but otherwise I try to avoid them like the plague.
We love because we find in the beloved something that is lovable. We see, we know, and then we love. Or, at least, we promise to love.