The cost of discipleship is great; the rewards are even greater, and fear is one of the only things that can prevent one from trusting fully in the ultimate saving power of God.
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Love, like God
God loves everyone, everywhere, always — equally, without limits, without distinction, without conditions, with a generosity unequaled.
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Taste the Gospel, hear the call of Jesus, and don’t settle for anything else
This is the preparation for the endurance and the surrender to the cross. This is simply what has been referred to as the truth — the Gospel truth.
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Jesus Christ sends us forth to respond to this world with compassion
Anyone can judge it, but a true disciple sees it with compassion and loves as Christ loves.
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I am thankful
We have worked together. We have become more united — more one, and more the Body of Christ.
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Recognize, seek the good
Jesus, the great teacher, teaches us, too, and leads us to look and to see with the eyes of our hearts.
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Covered by the love of the cross, covered by the love that is God
We will never fully understand it, and yet we touch the mystery countless times every day in prayer, allowing this mystery to guide and to change and to love us!
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The multiple things that can transform us with the word of Jesus
There is no harm in listening. There is no harm in hearing. And maybe, just maybe, we will learn.
And if not, if not convinced, what did we lose? A few minutes?
But what we might gain is even more valuable.
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Lives and love that will last
He cursed the barren tree and he upturned the godless prayer space strewn with tables of commerce that had become a marketplace.
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Choose last, and experience a little bit of eternal life right now
We just have to do our part and do it to the best of our ability and with all of our heart. Then, no doubt, we will easily — time and time again — choose last and become first.
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