Category: Christianity

It is the Second Sunday in Lent and with this post I have finally caught up and gotten back on track. Accept my apologies for being late in my postings the last couple of days. In today’s Old Testament lesson…

In my last posting I talked about routines and habits and how agape, because one definition is love in action, can be integrated into our lives as a routine and habit, making it part of everything we do. However, there…

I am sorry for the lateness of this post but for the second time in a week I lost a posting. I am not sure what is happening, but it is becoming frustrating. I now know when it happens, so…

I was thinking this evening, can I continue to write on love for another thirty-eight days (33 for the days of Lent and then remaining five Sundays), without people getting a little tired of reading on this one subject? Love…

After yesterday’s post, which was awash in the rapture of agape, it time to take a step back and apply the balancing perspective. One reader, March, left the following comment. So…is agape giving anytime we are asked? I fall so…

The thing that scares people about love, especially the agape kind, is that it makes you vulnerable, it makes demands. For the Son, it led to the incarnation and the cross and one of his most difficult commands was for…

After writing on the fourth form of love, agape/agapao for the last seventy-five minutes, I just accidentally deleted the post. So I will have to start again. Such is Lent and agape. God has his reasons. I could go again…

In case you were wondering, Sundays are not officially part of Lent. That is why today’s posting is listed as 4S; it is not yet the fifth day of Lent and it is Sunday. That said, let us move on…

Yesterday we set the parameters of our discussion, at least relating to the Word. Today we begin looking in depth at the four word in Greek used for love: agapao-agape, eros, philios, and storge. Our concentration will be on the…

We are off to a good start, that is, if like me, you believe that death is a loving gift from a caring Father. Where we will end up as we progress on this journey, only our Father knows, but…