A God who Loves Us has our Back. He is Reliable. We can Trust in Him

A God who loves us has our back. He is reliable. We can trust in him.

With the backing of God, we are not sticking our neck out. There is no risk only reward. We can afford to do good to our neighbors.

Reality is reliable. We can depend on the reality of his love for us. His love for us is the rock on which the wise build their lives . Whom shall we fear? Of whom shall we be afraid ? Will our almighty lover ever let us down? Will he ever disappoint?

 

The knowledge that God loves us inspires confidence in us that God has our back. When we are confident that God has our back, we can afford to do good to our neighbors. When we doubt, how difficult it is. Good works are the manifestation of our trust in God. The absence of good works reveals an absence of faith.

 
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A God who Loves Us has our Back. He is Reliable. We can Trust in Him
A God who Loves Us has our Back. He is Reliable. We can Trust in Him

Reality is reliable. We can depend on the reality of his love for us. His love for us is the rock on which the wise build their lives. Whom shall we fear? Of whom shall we be afraid? Will our almighty lover ever let us down? Will he ever disappoint?

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The Size of God's Love for Us
The Size of God's Love for Us

Is there a way to estimate the size of God’s love for us?

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A God who Loves Us has our Back. He is Reliable. We can Trust in Him
A God who Loves Us has our Back. He is Reliable. We can Trust in Him

Reality is reliable. We can depend on the reality of his love for us. His love for us is the rock on which the wise build their lives. Whom shall we fear? Of whom shall we be afraid? Will our almighty lover ever let us down? Will he ever disappoint?

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Jesus Commandeered a Cross and Reconfigured its Message to Neutralize the Serpent's Anti-God Propaganda
Jesus Commandeered a Cross and Reconfigured its Message to Neutralize the Serpent's Anti-God Propaganda

To neutralize the the serpent’s anti-God propaganda, Jesus commandeered a cross - the instrument of our woe - and repurposed it to offer us a contradiction.

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The Gardens of the New Eden
The Gardens of the New Eden

Armageddon is here and now. We are not fighting for something in the hereafter. The battle is now. Now is the time to join Jesus in the scrum at the line of scrimmage in the Valley of Tears facing off against Evil toe to toe, cheek to jowl. Christianity is not a sport for spectators. Christians partake in the fray.

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GOD WROTE THE LOVE NOTE IN THE LANGUAGE OF SUFFERING
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In what language did God write the Love Note that he sent to us to answer our question, ‘Who are you, God?’.

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What Occupies The Position of Prominence in the Showcase of Christianity?
What Occupies The Position of Prominence in the Showcase of Christianity?

Christianity is not monolithic. Different factions of Christianity emphasize different aspects of Christianity. Which aspect of Christianity is, in actuality, its most important aspect? To answer this question, we need to look at what aspect of Christianity Jesus himself put in the position of prominence in the showcase of Christianity. The showcase of Christianity is the road from the Crucifixion to the Resurrection. We made a contribution to the showcase and so did Jesus. We put torture, suffering, killing and death into the showcase. Thankfully, he did not answer the evil that we did to him in kind. He did not give us a taste of our own medicine. His answer to the evil that we did to him was asymmetric - radically asymmetric. Into the position of prominence in the showcase of Christianity, Jesus put forgiveness. Forgiveness is the vehicle that Jesus used to convey to us the nature of God. To know forgiveness is to know God. Do you know your God? The wise anchor their understanding of God to the bombshell of revelation that exploded when Jesus and the evil that we did to him met in violent collision on the road from the Crucifixion to the Resurrection. To what do you anchor your understanding of God?

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† THE EXCLAMATION POINT † 
† THE EXCLAMATION POINT † 

The Crucifixion is the exclamation point that the Word of God affixed to the sentence, 'God loves us'. GOD DOES NOT JUST LOVE US. GOD LOVES US EVEN THOUGH WE TORTURED AND KILLED HIM. Wow!

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The Seeds of Evil do not Germinate in the Soil of Love
The Seeds of Evil do not Germinate in the Soil of Love

The seeds of evil do not germinate in the soil of love. Therefore, build a firewall between you and evil with blocks of love. Stop evil from propagating itself. Stop evil dead in its tracks.

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Dilution
Dilution

God sent us a Love Note to dilute the toxicity of the Valley of Tears. Jesus was the first drop. Our job is to turn the drop into a flood. God wants us to become Love Notes like Jesus. He wants us to irrigate the Valley of Tears with love to turn it into the gardens of the new Eden here on earth. Our job is done here and now not hereafter and elsewhere. Our job is to pour the sweet syrup of love into the toxic brew held in the Valley of Tears.

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To Answer our question, “Who are you, God?”, God sent us a Love Note.
To Answer our question, “Who are you, God?”, God sent us a Love Note.

Jesus entered the Valley of Tears to hold a conversation with us. “Who are you, God? Identify yourself. Friend or foe?” We shouted our question at him. He whispered his answer to us. The conversation took place on the road from the Crucifixion to the Resurrection. The conversation was an interrogation. We gave Jesus the third degree.

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Take Refuge!
Take Refuge!

God established communities of love in which we can take refuge from the evils of the Valley of Tears

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Jesus gave our faceless God a face
Jesus gave our faceless God a face

Jesus gave a faceless God a face on the road from the Crucifixion to the Resurrection. On the road from the Crucifixion to the Resurrection, Jesus showed us the face of forgiveness. Our God is the God who forgave us for the evil that we did to him. The brutality of the Crucifixion makes the intransigence of his love extraordinary.

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History is a Series of Failed Attempts by the Serpent to Extinguish God's Love for Us
History is a Series of Failed Attempts by the Serpent to Extinguish God's Love for Us

The serpent is a dynamic but malign force who propels himself through human history repeatedly trying to extinguish God's love for us. The serpent tries time and time again to persuade God that God has made a mistake in loving us. History, therefore, consists of a series of failed attempts by the serpent to extinguish God’s love for us. Furthermore, God exploits these episodes to demonstrate to us the indestructibility of His love for us.

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The Transmission of Christianity is Difficult
The Transmission of Christianity is Difficult

Words beget words. Only Love begets love. Catechesis with words is a poor substitute for catechesis with love.

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The Transfusion of Love
The Transfusion of Love

From his heart, our hearts receive a transfusion of love. The transfusion of love is invigorating. It vivifies us. It brings the dead to life (Luke 15:32) (John 3:3).

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God's War on Poverty
God's War on Poverty

The economy of paradise is based on the currency of love. With ordinary currency, the more we spend, the poorer we get. It is a paradox, but with the currency of love, the more we spend, the richer we get.

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The Greatest Threat to our Salvation
The Greatest Threat to our Salvation

The greatest threat to our salvation is that our understanding of God is superficial.

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GOD WANTS HEROES NOT BOOKKEEPERS
GOD WANTS HEROES NOT BOOKKEEPERS

Jesus parachuted into the Valley of Tears to bring the war against evil to his enemies. He did not invade the Valley of Tears at the head of a powerful army (Revelation 12:7-12) armed to the teeth. He invaded the Valley of Tears alone, riding a Cross, with no weapon but love. He came to recruit an army of heroes from among the children of Adam and Eve to stand with him shoulder to shoulder, cheek to jowl, in the scrum at the line of scrimmage as comrade-in-arms fighting together in the war against evil as part of a glorious band of sisters and brothers. He invaded the Valley of Tears to bring us the technology that defeats evil (Luke 7:47). He demonstrated that the technology works by using it himself on the road from the Crucifixion to the Resurrection. He donned the jet pack and flew to show us that we, too, can fly. Love is the medicine that inoculates us against evil. Jesus took the medicine and exposed himself to the evil that we did to him to show us that the medicine works. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the medicine works. Inoculate yourself with it. Evil is a contagious disease. Don’t let evil infect you. The seeds of evil do not grow in the soil of love. Love is toxic to evil. Love smothers evil was water smothers fire.

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God's Rescue Plan Boils Down to Putting Us in Intimate Contact With The Truth
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“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32). Intimate contact with the truth is the means by which God is trying to save us. Illusions distort our perception of reality. Intimacy with the truth - both the sour truth and the sweet truth - shatters the illusions that distort our perception pf reality.

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What is the foundation of Christianity? A LOVE NOTE IS THE FOUNDATION OF CHRISTIANITY.

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God wants us to dilute the Bitterness of the Valley of Tears with the Sweetness of Love
God wants us to dilute the Bitterness of the Valley of Tears with the Sweetness of Love

God wants us to pour the sweet syrup of love into the bitterness of the Valley of Tears. Our perception of the solution to our dire predicament in the Valley of Tears is different than God’s. We want him to remove the bitterness. He wants us to dilute it. There is a difference in opinions. His prevails.

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We are not on the same page as God
We are not on the same page as God

Are we on the same page as God? Our perception of the problem is the same as God’s. The problem is the bitterness of the Valley of Tears. The sour truth plays rough. It bites. It chews us up and spits us out as bits and pieces. Furthermore, its tongue is as sharp as its teeth. Its tongue generates virulent anti-God propaganda. Our perception of the solution , however is different. We want God to address the bitterness of the Valley of Tears. God wants us to address it. He wants us to dilute it (John 17:15) as sugar cubes dilute the bitterness of a cup of bad coffee.. God wants us to pour the sweet syrup of love into the bitterness of the Valley of Tears. There is a difference in opinions. His prevails

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Increasing our Resemblance to God
Increasing our Resemblance to God

Love deifies us. Love raises us up from the level of the most miserable and hideous of loveless beast to the level of our loving God - from the basement of the kingdom of God to the penthouse.

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Punctuation Marks: Turning Question marks into Exclamation marks
Punctuation Marks: Turning Question marks into Exclamation marks

His bloody wounds are the punctuation marks that our evil opened in his body. Before we knew what his answer would be to the evil that we did to him, his bloody wounds were question marks. After, they became exclamation points. There was a change in punctuation. The change in punctuation is the good knews of great joy - very good news for us.

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LOVE IS THE GOLD STANDARD OF CHRISTIANITY  
LOVE IS THE GOLD STANDARD OF CHRISTIANITY  

Love is the gold standard of Christianity against which everything else is measured. Love is not a feeling. Both its scope and its size can be measured.

With regard to the size of his love, Jesus laid down his life for us (John 10:15-18) (John 15:13). He made the payment not from his unlimited divine resources. He made the payment from his limited human resources. He paid them all for us (1 Corinthians 7:23-24). He kept not a penny for himself. He has never paid more for anything else (John 15:13). The exorbitant size of the payment is irrefutable evidence of the exorbitant size of his love for us.

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Becoming Pilots of Our Own Souls
Becoming Pilots of Our Own Souls

We cannot delegate the exploration of the mystery, majesty and magnificence of God to others. We must do it ourselves.Why? In the process of seeking God, God transforms us.

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Instant Catholics
Instant Catholics

Unlike coffee, there is no such thing as an instant Catholic.

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Delivery of the Gift of Paradise: Ineluctable - just Delayed a Bit
Delivery of the Gift of Paradise: Ineluctable - just Delayed a Bit
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More and Better Theology
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