The Ephesian church’s loss of love for Christ reflects a very real danger all Christians face. We all experience ups and downs, growth and atrophy, in our love of God. Octavius Winslow’s classic, “Personal Declension and Revival of Religion in the the Soul” has been helpful to me over the years, and is being used [...]
Dear Self,
Do not neglect cultivating hatred – an intense hatred for the right things. Authentic love and zeal for God will produce abhorrence for all that stands opposed to Him and His purposes. Genuine love for your neighbor will produce within you antipathy against all that robs them of their dignity, and leads them away [...]
You can call this “corporal works of mercy,” loving your neighbor(hood), missional living, or just awesome.
(via Scott Hodge)
I am the Lead Pastor of Redeemer Fellowship, husband to Jen, Dad to Katherine, Elias and Madeline - and the short, bald guy in Starbucks writing in a Moleskine journal.
