Tag: Bible
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2025-01-10
Love as the Gift of Self
Many know to define love as "willing the good of another," but throughout the New Testament, we find instead the idea that love is the gift of one's very self, one's psyche, or soul.
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2025-01-03
He Who Seeks to Save His Life
Of all the many difficult sayings of Jesus, one in particular troubles my soul. He tells us that the one who seeks to save his "psyche" ends up losing it, but the one who loses it ends up finding it. I argue that this means much more than giving up one's "life" in the final act of death, but rather involves the total and continual gift of one's very self.
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2020-01-11
The Kingdom of the Heavens
The last two weekends, I preached for both Lexington Christian Fellowship and Jessamine Christian Fellowship on the Kingdom of the Heavens in the Gospel of Matthew.