Tag: empathy
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Are Jesus’ Teachings Weak? [Sermon]
When I was in seminary, I took a two week intensive in interfaith ministry. We heard a few speakers from an interfaith youth organization. One of those speakers, an atheist, told a story that went something like this: I was talking with an Evangelical Christian who asked me “If you don’t believe in an afterlife,…
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The End Is Near!? [Sermon]
There are a lot of punctuation marks and other special characters. Just in English we have periods, commas, colons, semicolons, hyphens, en dashes (which are longer than hyphens), em dashes (which are longer then en dashes), at signs, hashtags or octothorps (the tic-tac-toe looking symbol), dollar and cent signs, ampersands (the and sign), carets (the…
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The Sin of Empathy
And if we are to believe that Jesus is God who walks with us, how sinful would it be for God to take the empathic action to live as us, among us, and suffering as we do?|
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Pain is Exhausting
Sometimes we see someone visibly struggling with pain. Sometimes the crosses people bear are invisible. We may never know the pain and exhaustion another person feels. Be gentle with each other.