Video Audio In order to have the fullest, most satisfying experience of forgiveness, consider that forgiveness is an expression of the divine attitude of mercy. That attitude motivates whatever process may wisely be involved in making forgiveness real. Mercy is love applied to …
Love, purpose, and the opioid crisis
Video (13 minutes) Audio file Regarding the opioid crisis, I had read about pharmaceutical companies, pharmacies, lawmakers, and others, but nothing about the lack of a sense of purpose in brothers and sisters who knowingly abuse dangerous drugs. I understand that hopelessness arises from …
The faith of an adult child
Would you like to watch the 13:39-minute video? Or listen to the podcast episode? We enter the family of God with the faith of a little child, but that faith lacks the discernment and power of the faith of the adult child. When the thicket of problems becomes too difficult for our tools, when …
The beautiful wholeness of righteousness
R Watch the 10-minute video Listen to the audio file Righteousness gets a bad name because of two distortions: legalistic religion that tries to control matters that should be left to individual freedom, and self-righteous swagger with its hostility toward broad classes of …
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Overcoming our resistance to social service
Watch the six-minute video or listen to the audio Social service defined: Readiness to do good, if we can, to anyone with any kind of need. It is common for love to be preferential in a way that is not based on our deeper equality in the brotherhood of man, the siblinghood of humankind. But …
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What’s better than grumpy? Friendship with God.
Watch the 12-minute videoor listen to the podcast episode The eternal God is our Father and our Friend. When we say “God,” we refer to the awesome Creator. And the amazing thing is that the Creator of the universe has an intimate and personal relationship with each one of us. We are not forced, but …
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