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The Most Important Prompt For Forgiveness
There is a pattern most of us recognize the moment it is named: the forgiveness that costs us nothing. We let small things go — a forgotten favor, a clumsy remark, an oversight. These acts of grace are real, but they are also easy. The forgiveness Jesus spoke of, the kind he returned to again…
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God Does Not Want Us To Completely Abandon Our Egos
Although I’ve used language in the past on this blog such as “ego transcendence,” it should be clarified that this does not imply — nor recommend — the complete abandonment of the ego itself. Even Jesus had an ego. Your ego is simply your earthly identity, your avatar here in this life. It is the…
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Letting Go of Control: The Hidden Core of Jesus’ Teachings
The teaching at the heart of Jesus’s message that most Christians casually skip over Your ego wants one thing above all else: total control. Control of outcomes, control of the future, control of the narrative of your own life. And if you look honestly at the way most people move through their days — the…
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The Good Samaritan Test
American Christians are failing it in real time — and they know it There is something deeply revealing about a nation that calls itself Christian while waging a cultural war against the very people Jesus would have stopped to help. Self-described Christians across the United States are among the most aggressively anti-immigration voices in the…
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Isolationism is Inherently Anti-Christian
Isolationism has always been a practical impossibility in the modern world, we rely on each other constantly in numerous ways, but it is also something else: a direct contradiction of Christian teaching. Jesus said to love your neighbor, full stop. No asterisk, no footnote limiting that neighbor to someone of the same race, nationality, or…
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