I should've noticed that the woman's Kindle was displaying its title at the top of the page — «
Where the God of Love Hangs Out.»
We'll be interested to see
where God of Love fits into Bloom's oeuvre.
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin Dead End Gene Pool by Wendy Burden Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe by Jenny Hollowell Hellhound on His Trail by Hampton Sides * Hold Me Closer, Necromancer by Lish McBride I Now Pronounce You Someone Else by Erin McCahan Life Would Be Perfect if I Lived in that House by Meghan Daum Lives Like Loaded Guns by Lyndall Gordon ** The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender Weeping Under Water Looks A Lot Like Laughter by Michael J. White
Where the God of Love Hangs Out by Amy Bloom
Not exact matches
[14:18] Rules
of the game to succeed, but not for fulfillment [14:40]
God loves diversity; same is true with people — different sources
of fulfillment [14:55] Success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure [16:53] We all have something different as our inner desire, you need to find what fulfills you [17:05] A cautionary tale: Robin Williams, the loss
of a national treasure [18:42] He lit everybody up, except himself [19:15] Most
of us live a life
where we succeed but we're not truly fulfilled [20:10] Richard: Tony, what is your method for happiness?
As far as it being condemned by
God, you can see some
of my earlier posts
where we talked about there being legitimate theological interpretations
of Scripture that allow for
loving, committed gay relationships.
There are many problems in churches find one with a body
of believers who believe Jesus is
God's son, the Bible is true, and
where they
love one another.
I have to say that many
of the posts throughout this website make me very happy that I have a church
where I can worship
God and celebrate His endless
love with people
of like faith.
But, this is
where our journey to
God through Christ begins; and if a life through Christ begins with these two commandments
of love, how then can one spread hatred and claim to follow Christ?
It's not about a law or legalism... If you are truly Born
of God obedience is just the natural outcome
of love, not trying... If you find yourself trying to not cuss, well, that's works and legalism... but if you walk by the Spirit
where the topic just never really comes up because it's not in
God's, Jesus» or the Holy Spirit's vocabulary.
No
where in her article did she say, «Do not study the Bible» she's simply saying that
love is one
of God's teachings and it's often the topic people want to discuss most
of all when they're near the precipice.
I am rather disturbed that she could
love and worship a
God who, according to my interpretation (or possibly misinterpretation)
of what the bible says, would send me to eternal torment
where there is wailing and gnashing
of teeth, simply because I can not find it within myself to believe in him.
For
God so
loved this world He saw fit to send His first born
of the «elementals», (Being
God's Sons) to give hope
where little hopefulness was found.
I've walked the path
of forgiveness - true forgiveness and I hope however many days I have left I never forget the feelings
of love - it's all that matters and it's
where my
God lives.
jesus died for your sins so there is no need for animal sacrifice, eating kosher, avoiding a woman when she has her period, etc etc.
god suddenly became much more
of a sweet and
loving god,
where before he was jealous and prone to killing people that defied him.
At first this moved me to anger but over time that has moved to sympathy and
love... atheists are a people lost within themselves and this anger seems to be the desperate flailings
of a people trying to find something to fill the hole in their soul
where God should be.
the «
loving»
god is happy to see vast sections
of mankind go to hell for not believing in it, just because
of where they were born.
No
where in your bible does your
god condemn the saved
loving respectful relationship
of a gay couple.
It is within the affairs
of people
where God dwells,
where God is found,
where God is
loved, and
where God is served.
By
God's grace we will recruit & trained a million Friends (mentors) 2 walk along side a pregnant woman, showing her Christ's
love & compassion while connecting them 2 the wide range
of life - affirming resources needed 2 choose LIFE & adoption
where appropriate.
That's why there are 1000's
of gay churches and gay clergy because no
where in your bible does your
god condemn the saved
loving respectful relationship
of a gay couple.
Woman's singular strength arises from her awareness that
God entrusts other eternal subjects to her and even
where modernity has resulted in a «gradual loss
of sensitivity for man, that is for what is essentially human», maternal
love must «ensure sensitivity for human beings in every circumstance: because they are human!».
Only when we lose the fear
of losing
God's
love, and come to see that
God loves us and forgives us no matter what, do we get to the place
where sin no longer has the draw that it once did.
It calls the disciple to live, at least part
of the time, as if he or she were already in the next world, a world
where all share freely and constantly commune with
God — in short, a life
of love.
Dark, an acquaintance
of mine and fellow Zondervan author, really struck a cord in the first chapter,
where he says, «We feel pressure to believe — or pretend to believe — that
God is
love, while suspecting with a sinking feeling that
God likes almost no one.»
The document also insists, however, «that
God has been present in their seeking and finding, that
where there is truth and wisdom in their teachings, and
love and holiness in their living, this, like any wisdom, insight, knowledge, understanding,
love and holiness that is found among us, is the gift
of the Holy Spirit.»
Our praying, whether in word or thought, whether in church or at home, whether at ordinary services in church or at the Lord's Supper, should be grounded in two matters
of supreme importance: the reality
of God as
Love and the concrete place
where we happen to be as human beings.
I would
love to speak with
god actually, I do have a fair amount
of questions for him, do you know
where he is?
The poet's task will be to find a solution, some point
of union,
where love's understanding may be realized in truth, the
God's anxiety be set at rest, his sorrow banished.
O
God of every nation,
of every race and land, redeem the whole creation with your almighty hand;
where hate and fear divide us and bitter threats are hurled, in
love and mercy guide us and heal our strife - torn world.
what I appreciate about David's cartoons, is that he'll go on for awhile exposing the flaws in some
of our churches, right up to the point
where I almost don't want to hear any more and then * KABOOM * he hits us with the
love and grace
of God.
It is far easier to folow the history and see why your book, your
god, and the NT needed to be created, BY MEN... no evidence
of divine inspiration... a line showing the previous cultures your story was taken from, and one can see
where the wisdom
of men was incorporated... just in your version it is not mans wisdom, but something from some deity (who until the NT was a very vindictive, murderous, egotistical
god), who suddenly is all
love and flowers.
It seems that the idea
of an inclusive church
where people are
loved and valued based only on the fact that they are a unique creation
of God is threatening to those who thing they alone hold the real truth.
Duffy makes a point
of reminding us that he is a «cradle» Catholic, raised in what many consider the narrow, provincial, and oppressive world
of Irish Catholicism,
where the phrase «
God is
love» was «thumped into you with a stick and the penny catechism.»
Even so, this stops short
of 1 John 4:8, 16,
where God is not merely One who
loves, but is
love.16
Where we define a blessing as something centered around our happiness, Jesus» view
of blessing is centered around
love for and obedience to
God.
Cobb and his colleague (and former student) David Griffin co-wrote Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition in 1976,
where the identification
of God as «creative - responsive
love» appears.52 To say with the New Testament that
God is
love requires, in their estimation, the further clarification that
God is
love both creatively, in the way in which
God offers an opening to new emergence in the unfolding moment, and responsively: «
God enjoys our enjoyments, and suffers with our sufferings.
In Winthrop, then, there is a great tension between the situation
of fallen men, whose disobedience to
God rends them also from each other so that they
love themselves alone, and the truly Christian community
where all are one body in mutual
love and concern.
I doubt there is another place on earth
where men — 2000
of them — spend as much time beseeching
God to show his
loving kindness to their sisters in the world, even to those who hate and despise them.
For the spirit
of Christ is the ground
of prayer, and all
love of one's neighbour is related to
God and Jesus Christ, hence
where two or three are gathered together in his name (Mt 18:20) the Lord is in the midst
of them.
But faith in this sense
of the word is possible only
where it takes the form
of faith in the
love of God.
Both sons are prodicals what
God is teaching us through the parable is revealing the intents
of our hearts there sinful.The younger son wanted the worldly pleasures that was
where his heart was at at least he is honest.The older brothers heart was no better because it was all about him it wasnt out
of love for his father that he stayed on the farm but that by his works he would gain all that his father had.If he
loved his father he would have known how his father would have responded to his brother and he himself would also have been happy to have seen his brother alive again.In the back
of his mind he is worried that he may lose more
of his inheritance and feels threatened and that is why he responds in the way he does.His heart hasnt changed at all even though his brother has come back from the dead.
My
love is so far from the mark
of where God desires, and I am humbled.
Love then, between a man and a woman, is a mimetic phenomenon in that it reflects God's reconciliation to man and nature; «For love does not exist where two beings are in need of each other but where each could exist independently, such as in the case with God who is already in and of Himself - suapte natura - the being God (der Seyende): here then each could be for itself without considering it an act of privation to be for itself, even though it will not want to...&ra
Love then, between a man and a woman, is a mimetic phenomenon in that it reflects
God's reconciliation to man and nature; «For
love does not exist where two beings are in need of each other but where each could exist independently, such as in the case with God who is already in and of Himself - suapte natura - the being God (der Seyende): here then each could be for itself without considering it an act of privation to be for itself, even though it will not want to...&ra
love does not exist
where two beings are in need
of each other but
where each could exist independently, such as in the case with
God who is already in and
of Himself - suapte natura - the being
God (der Seyende): here then each could be for itself without considering it an act
of privation to be for itself, even though it will not want to...»
Why should a gay man or woman still repent, and return to
God and his Church, when the secular society becomes a kind
of pseudo-church
where gays can be «happy» despite the absence
of God's presence who is life and cure in himself (the great benefit
of the true Church is the presence
of God there who is life, cure and
love in himself; the presence
of God in the church causes real happiness)?
Dear
loving Pastor, Greetings to you in the holy name
of Jesus.I am Pastor Joseph from South India, state
of Andhra Pradesh.I have been doing
God's work in various villages in the remote villages
where the huts are there and I have been doing all my prayer services.In the mud roofs I have been gathering with the people for preaching the word
of God.So I request you in Christ to help the church constructions.Please pray for it.Thank you in Christ.I look forward to see your reply.
The only one doing that is you Bob, you're the one that is in denial that no
where in the bible does your
god condemn the saved
loving respectful relationship
of a gay couple.
We have too often sought
God logically in the «left brain» rather than expanding our use
of the right hemisphere
of the brain
where intuitive, prayerful,
loving, visual thinking occurs —
where we pray, believe,
love and develop a consciousness
of the total mind - body - spirit relationship.
Through
God's presence who is life,
love, health, fellowship, light, truth, happiness in Himself, they had got everything, and this is expressed through the marvelous kind
of place
where they were allowed to live: The Paradise.
Where a Pastor SHOULD be speaking to answers on where God is during these tragic events, he considers his opinion designed to stir up emotion to take precedence over the message of Jesus Christ which teaches, love, comfort and faith in God in all th
Where a Pastor SHOULD be speaking to answers on
where God is during these tragic events, he considers his opinion designed to stir up emotion to take precedence over the message of Jesus Christ which teaches, love, comfort and faith in God in all th
where God is during these tragic events, he considers his opinion designed to stir up emotion to take precedence over the message
of Jesus Christ which teaches,
love, comfort and faith in
God in all things.
In contrast to a view
of divine
love which does not admit that
God sides with the oppressed, Hartshorne holds that
God favors the creaturely exercise
of freedom up to the point
where it becomes excessive and is a threat to the freedom
of others to pursue their interests.