Whether on the Internet or in a chain, links connect us to one another (Ecclesiastes 4:9-12). Love links divinity and humanity. In three distinct stages of love, these links intertwine, and relate to mankind. The underlying premise is that God lives to agape, man was created to phileo, and woman was built to eros. Please understand what I am saying: God must agape […]
Love LINKS
Love is A BATTLEFIELD: Part Two
There is such power in phileo! It is the highest visible, tangible expression of the love of God in the world. Until we see phileo lived out through and among men the spiritual gifts (tongues, prophecies, faith, wisdom, signs, wonders, and miracles) mean nothing. It all means nothing without phileo (1 Corinthians 13:1-4). Phileo causes us to really care enough […]
Love is A BATTLEFIELD: Part One
Consider John 15:13 where Jesus said, “Greater love has no man than this, that a man would lay down his life for his friends.” We weren’t friends with Jesus as we define friends. We define friends as people who have proven over time that they can be trusted with what is valuable to us. Jesus defines friends as anyone He […]
Love Goes A.P.E. – Part 2: Phileo
With phileo, or brotherly/sisterly love (Hebrews 13:1), one cares for the other as much as one cares for the self (Genesis 2:7, 17, 19). Phileo is the missing link (Genesis 3:23). It is based upon shared vision, purpose, and divine revelation (Genesis 2:28), which make it difficult to understand and challenging to practice (2 Samuel 1:26). It seeks what is […]
Welcome STRANGER
“Be not forgetful (or remember) to entertain (welcome, host, befriend, show hospitality to) strangers (foreigners, transients, unknowns, enemies, oddities, eccentrics, weirdos, freaks, queers, rejects, repulsives, squares, uncools, anomalies, abnormals, bizzares, the mysterious, differents, unpopulars, unusuals): for thereby (in doing so) some (not many, the minority, the few) have (will) entertained angels (servants and messengers of God, the Divine) unawares (without […]
Family REUNION, Home IMPROVEMENT
Anyone and everyone who has attended a family reunion has probably had the experience. We don’t mind entertaining company for a while, just as long as they don’t stay too long. How long is too long? Too long is when we can no longer cover up what’s really been going on in our lives. We can and we do put on […]
A DOG Gone Sermon
Dog really is man’s best friend – especially when the man allows the dog to teach him a thing or two about living. Jade was a black toy poodle that came to live with us a few years ago. He was given to us as a gift from a close friend of mine to my daughter. After Jade came to […]
Rembering a FRIEND
A childhood friend of mine (my FIRST friend, as I recall) was killed by his son about 18 months ago. This is my tribute to him: An Ode to Billy Mc By Edwin It was the summer of 1966 when you and I first met. Almost forty-two years later, You’re still someone I won’t forget. We met because our fathers […]
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