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Self-Love First?

The reigning cliche of the day is that in order to love others one must first learn to love oneself. This formulation--love thyself, then thy neighbor--is ...


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From Responsibility to Rights

We have seen a gradual change over the past several decades in our society from emphasizing individual responsibility to emphasizing, almost glorifying, ...


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Natural Reason Looks at Marriage

Note that when natural reason (whom the heathen have followed when they wanted to be very wise), looks at married life, she turns up her nose and says: ...


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Thanks, But ...

Often we put a "but" at the end of a "thank you," as in, "Thank you, Lord, for friends, but I wish I had more"; or, "I'm ...


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Happiness Now

People seem to believe that they have an inalienable right to be happy--"I want what I want and I want it now." No one wants to wait for anything ...


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Bigheartedness Turned Small

The widest thing in the universe is not space; it is the potential capacity of the human heart. Being made in the image of God, it is capable of almost ...


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Why We Suffer

The body poorly protects what it does not feel. In the spiritual Body, also, loss of feeling inevitably leads to atrophy and inner deterioration. So much ...


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Self-Centered Sin

I can remember when I was an undergraduate student, how enlightening it was to learn from William Temple that what the Bible means by sin is "self-centeredness." ...


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A Fruitless Quest

The search for self-fulfillment is endless, and endlessly frustrating.


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Loving God or Starving?

There is a famine of compassion and unselfish, lasting, growing, true love among human beings because of the blast of egotistic desire to have "rights" ...


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