Love of Neighbor (172)
  1. A good place to start is to work hard at loving those no one else seems to love. I can’t think of a more Christ-like action.
  2. On episode FORTY-FIVE of Let the Bird Fly! the guys (sans Ben) get together to discuss C.S. Lewis’ book The Four Loves.
  3. Jesus came to lay down his life for us. He didn’t come to slip 6’ leashes on the necks of his canine followers. He came to set us free.
  4. When we talk about love then, let us not talk about ourselves.
  5. We follow the example of creation and her Creator, wasting our love quite prodigally in fulfilling our callings, whether we’re thanked or spurned, applauded or ignored.
  6. After spending two episodes dealing with the apparent tension between justification and good works we dedicate another installment to the doctrine of vocation.
  7. His forgiveness gives us the courage to watch out for our neighbor in both the present and the future, and to act with wisdom while understanding failures are still ahead.
  8. Christian freedom and Christian love go together in a most wonderful way.
  9. But where love is necessary we pray for our enemies and bless them in the hope that God will repent and convert them to the Gospel.
  10. Being a run-of-the-mill, mediocre parent is a gift to your children. It models for them what life is all about: the little things, the overlooked things, the minuscule elements of daily life that—in various ways—are God’s gifts to us.
  11. If affairs always begin by believing lies, then repentance always begins by believing the truth: the truth that you are in the wrong, the truth that you have a God who loves you in Jesus Christ, and the truth that he and he alone can save you not only from adultery but from every sin that seeks to lead you down the path of destruction.
  12. In Christian terms, this is a perfect example of the doctrine of vocation, where God calls us to serve our neighbor.
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