This week we kicked off a brand-new teaching series called, Hard to Love. Do you have anyone in your life who is hard for you to love? If you do, this is a series you will not want to miss a single part of. Together we’ll talk about why and how we can better approximate God’s own love for everyone in our lives, not just the people we like. We’ll see why doing this is so powerful. And, we’ll be reminded that in doing it we’re only ever giving what we have ourselves received. Keep checking back here each of the next few Mondays to catch the next part of this critical conversation.
Hard to Love
Do you remember some of the phrases your dad said a lot when you were growing up? Every dad has these. It’s part of the secret dad creed (but if you tell anyone I’m afraid the consequences will be quite grave so just keep this between us). One of the things I remember my dad saying a lot to me was, “If you mess with the bull, you’ll get the horns.” The point, of course, is that if you pick a fight with something or someone bigger and stronger than you there’s a good chance you’ll lose. I learned this the hard way on a few occasions. We had a friend of the family named Jerry who we saw every now and then who was always fun to mess with, but he wasn’t much one to go easy on you just because you were a kid. One Christmas the family was all gathered at his house and I was being a bit bolder than wisdom would have suggested was prudent and quickly found myself locked in a closet, beating on the door, and screaming to be let out. In messing with the bull that night I definitely got the horns.
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