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Should Love Change Us, or Accept Us?

People, groups, and churches proclaim they will love us just as we are, no strings attached.  “You don’t have to change to be here. You are accepted,” they say.  Others will say, “Come as you are.  But don’t stay that way.”  Which is the more loving thing to say? Love is hard to pin down.  […]

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Why Sacrificial Love Misses the Point?

Yeah, I know God loves me. Whatever… I don’t talk about love much anymore. At least not God’s love. I find it unhelpful. For so many people the idea of love these days is so watered down, so sentimental, so…vapid. It’s not just that I’m a left brained logic chopper cutting through the emotional clutter […]

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God’s Love is Not a Starter Kit

God’s love is not the starter kit, to which you then add other more complicated characteristics later, when you’re more experienced. God’s love is not just the front door, leading to other rooms of more sophisticated attributes and truths. God’s love is not the shiny wrapping paper covering a more complicated gift that demands greater […]