The potential for good exists in all people. We have been made in the image of God, yet that image has been distorted in all of us. We are not “by nature” what God created us to be. As a result not all relationships are good.
Read More forgiveness, friendship, gossip, tongueWe live in a world of conflict – a world of war. The joke for those mocking beauty pageants is that every contestant desires “world peace”. While most of us would love to see peace across the whole earth, most of us would actually settle for something a bit less ostentatious: peace in our families, work relationships and friendships.
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On Keats Island in British Columbia I was speaking to junior high schoolers at a camp. (My respect for junior high teachers grew exponentially after this experience.) However, I captured their attention by asking them to keep a secret with me. On Wednesday of that week, I had arranged to have a deadly weapon brought onto the island.
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Read Reflect Tucked at the end of a now familiar litany calling for justice and a right attitude to the poor is a piercing metaphor about people who sneer (or mock or scoff) at others (v 8). We know that wildfires destroy vast tracts of land and can engulf villages and towns, razing property and […]
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