9 results for tag: compassion
“Please Sir, I want some more” by Stuart Segall
In the movie “Oliver” young Oliver does the unthinkable and walks up to the master in the house and asks for more soup! After a harmony of gasps, the next words out of the mouths of all the adults are “What?”
Anyone watching the movie would have to have a heart of stone to side with the “adults” questioning the young boys' request. The scene compels the viewer to a heart of compassion for Oliver. Even though it is a movie, you feel like jumping onto the screen and quickly giving him another bowl of soup.
This writer loves this scene in Oliver for it reminds me of myself. I know within me a child still resides. ...
October 2024
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Brad Jersak Simone Weil: An Astonishing Life – pg. 2
Greg Albrecht "Everyone Is Forgiven" – pg. 5
August 2024
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Brad Jersak The Gospel According to A.I. – pg. 2
Greg Albrecht "Divine Appointments?" – pg. 5
Ed Dunn Running the Race – pg. 6
Walking the Jericho Road – by Brad Jersak
Epistle Reading: Ephesians 4 - Walk as Children of Light:
8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), 10 finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to speak of those things that are done by them in secret. 13 But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light. 14 Therefore, He says: “Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And ...
July 2023
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Articles:
Mental Health Care: A Christian Response – pg. 1
Show Your Cards, Not Your Trophies – pg. 2
Two Ships that Pass in the Night – pg. 5
Elevator Dogmatics – pg. 7
Quotes & Connections – pg. 8
A Renewal of Compassion – by Ed Dunn
The times in which we live have been, in a word, tough. The last two years have seen radical changes in our health, both mentally and physically, our nation, politically, racially and economically, and our world, as we try to move around it. It’s been easy of late to take up a position on any number of topics, to stop listening altogether to different points of view, and to see large groups of people as “other.” I know I’ve felt a strong pull towards this polarization, and the harmful attitudes that come along with it.
I take public transportation to every destination I can’t get to on foot. Given my eyesight condition, I gave up my ...
October 2020
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Brad Jersak: Faith Beyond Factions– pg. 3
Greg Albrecht: Jesus Invites Outsiders– pg. 6
Keith Giles: Attack of the "Love Buts" – pg. 10
Brian Zahnd: War of the Lamb – pg. 12
Greg Albrecht: Loving Sinners, Hating Sins? -pg. 15
A Message of Comfort, Care and Compassion by Greg Albrecht
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness
Every day for
the past few weeks we have all heard increasingly discouraging news
related to the coronavirus pandemic. Each news cycle informs and
cautions us about further restrictions. It seems that the “walls are
closing in on us” and our world is shrinking. We are also seeing and
experiencing what can happen when fear turns into panic and
every-person-for-themselves greed.
Can we picture Jesus pushing
and shoving his way to get a few items left on a grocery store shelf?
As Christ-followers, while we should and must take care of our
necessities, and be careful not to ...
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