There is a weight that comes with caring for those you love. Parents feel it, as do doctors, nurses and employers—and a whole host of others. How should we respond to the weight of responsibility to love others? Is there a contradiction between the responsibility to love and the … [Read more...] about Weight Lifting
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A Man Called John
While Peter was a married man and probably among the oldest of the disciples, John was likely only a teenager. Along with Peter and his brother James, these three disciples got to see and hear things from Jesus that no one else on earth has seen or heard. And John wrote all … [Read more...] about A Man Called John
#2 Jesus and Work
Throughout the New Testament Jesus is set before us as a worker who labours for the increase of others. He is the faithful servant who labours from love on our behalf and for our good. He's the Sower, the Potter, the Farmer and the Shepherd who came, not to be served but to … [Read more...] about #2 Jesus and Work
It’s Good to Forget
Heaven, it has been said1, is not a hallway of mirrors. That would be more like a freakish hell than a heavenly bliss. You, you, nobody but you. Seeing nothing, hearing nothing, but you, you, you, for all eternity. Such a world would be joyless agony. Our own … [Read more...] about It’s Good to Forget
Jesus, Tradition
In John 13:1-35 Jesus shows us that His love for His disciples will be the same love that His followers will have for one another. By this love, made visible in Christs' tradition of sacrificial service, all the world will know that we belong to Jesus. In the last week of His … [Read more...] about Jesus, Tradition