Tag: #Love
#SV – Unrealistic Jesus?
Jesus said to his disciples:“To you who hear I say,love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.To the person who strikes you on one cheek,offer the other one as well,and from the person who takes your cloak,do not withhold even your tunic.Give to everyone who asks of you,and from the one who takes what is yours do not demand it back.Do to others as you would have them do to you.For if you love those who love you,what credit is that to you?Even sinners love those who love … Continue reading #SV – Unrealistic Jesus?
#SV – Compassionate God
I dedicate this Sunday to praying for all the victims of the #EndSARS protest in Nigeria, and I humbly enjoin you to join me in doing same. That is one way of reaching out in compassion to people who are oppressed and denied their rights in that part of the world and elsewhere. Compassion is not just a feeling, it is not merely an emotion, it is not a sentiment as such, it is not even an attitude; it is rather a deep actionable disposition in which we are moved in the depth of our hearts to show, speak, or … Continue reading #SV – Compassionate God
#SV – The Debt of Love
God is taking the ‘watchman’ through an experience of life, where he/she gets involved in the life of the other for the good of the other and of self. Continue reading #SV – The Debt of Love
#SV – Love-filled
The Pentecost feast reminds us once again that for us Christians, it is a ‘new’ version of Pentecost; one in which love is made accessible to us to live and share in a very radical way. This radicality of love has already been exemplified in the life of Jesus himself, who readily gave his life for the sake of love. In that sense the ultimate consequence of love is death – death to selfishness, to clannishness, to parochialism, to ethnicity, to racism, to extremisms that exclude, injure, hate, hurt, main, kill, destroy, and impoverish others. It is only when we … Continue reading #SV – Love-filled
Coronavirus and our Naked Humanity
Coronavirus, like every global crisis, has exposed our helplessness and vulnerability as human beings. It has shown the limits of what we can or cannot control. Apart from the ability to control the virus, we struggle with a lot of other things, including our faith, our greed, and even our very humanity. We see this clearly in the polarization within the faith community. When the recommendation for social distancing was made as a way to flatten the curve of the spread, the faith community had to take a tough decision. Churches were to be shut down, allowing for only private … Continue reading Coronavirus and our Naked Humanity
Alongside One Another 