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Have you ever gotten to know someone, only to realize they weren’t your cup of tea? Maybe they rubbed you the wrong way or you
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Have you ever gotten to know someone, only to realize they weren’t your cup of tea? Maybe they rubbed you the wrong way or you
Newness is attractive. People talk about “new car smell.” Companies even sell the scent so you can put it in your old car and still
The film Pay It Forward (directed by Mimi Leder, Warner Bros, 2000) follows a seventh-grade boy who is given an assignment to develop a plan
A paradigm that has a loyal, singularly focused following is NFL teams. One website surveyed fan loyalty based on whether fans stay loyal after a
Here is a story that exemplifies what it means to walk in love, regardless of whatever else happens: “A man saw a snake being burned
D. L. Mayfield documents her years in mission work to immigrant communities in her book Assimilate or Go Home. She hopes that many of the
When a weary world receives good news, it rejoices. It pays attention and wants more. During the height of the global shutdown from the COVID-19
In her song, “I Forgot That You Existed,” Taylor Swift takes the listener through getting over someone who did them wrong: “It isn’t love, it
NPR interviewed Koko Kondo, a woman who was just eight months old when the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on her city, Hiroshima. She
Folk tales throughout the ages have been told to express the sacred human duty of caring sacrificially for strangers. In these tales, a god, goddess,
Jesus did not become a heretic because he ate with sinners, showed mercy to adulterers, or bucked certain religious traditions. Loving others well happens in
When our theology doesn’t extend to loving action, we look a lot like the Pharisees. We see this in the high-profile exodus of folks like
The best stories have a character arc, in which a character changes throughout the events of the story. The movie Iron Man (directed by Jon
In an episode of the television show Gilmore Girls, Lorelai Gilmore is having her home remodeled. Consider showing clips from this episode (season 6, episode 3,
The point is that hospitality is an opportunity to serve others. It isn’t about getting “repaid” but about serving someone who otherwise might not experience
Jesus says, “But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind” (14:13). Invite people, then, who normally are not
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus uses two sensory-rich descriptions for the people who are his disciples. He states, “You are the salt of
Like salt, light is something that can have a dramatic effect on everything it touches. Light makes it possible to see. A lighthouse warns ships
A good modern example of a character transformed by love is Tony Stark in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. When we first meet Tony in Iron Man,
Pulling someone from a raging river requires us to get muddy too. If we simply toss a rope, the current pulls the rope downstream and
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