by Bryant Golden | Sep 3, 2019 | Encouragement, Love Others, Relevant Life
First, to love someone means that you are willing to sit down and listen to their story, to understand, to let your heart break for theirs and to rejoice with their rejoicing. To truly love the LGBTQ+ is to be willing to hear the hard truths of the rejection and...
by Bryant Golden | Sep 2, 2019 | Bible Verses, Love Others, Relevant Life
Everyone is talking about love lately. There’s even a presidential candidate harnessing the power of love on the debate stage and in her campaign. Perhaps the sudden focus is due to the extremities of hate that have surfaced in our American culture. One does not have...
by Bryant Golden | Aug 8, 2019 | Encouragement, Love Others, Relevant Life
What does it mean to be a peacemaker? First and foremost, it is not having an absence of conflict or accommodating all sides. There are times when compromise is not the answer. When injustice and oppression happen, claiming there is good on all sides and seeking to...
by Bryant Golden | Aug 5, 2019 | Encouragement, Love Others, Relevant Life
No matter what faith or community you associate yourself with, you will experience rejection at some point in your life. At no point am I saying that dealing with rejection is unique to Christians; what I am saying is that Christians have been empowered uniquely to...
by Bryant Golden | Aug 1, 2019 | Love Others, Relevant Life
Passive love is tolerance. The absence of hate is not the same as loving. The Christian’s job is to transform the world, to make it look more like the heaven we say we believe in. Throughout Jesus’ ministry He was increasingly inclusive, not exclusive. This requires a...
by Bryant Golden | Jun 6, 2019 | Encouragement, Love Others, Questions/Searching, Relevant Life
In Christian circles, people talk a lot about being spiritual or growing in spirituality. To those who are not of the Christian faith, this language can be confusing. Heck, it’s confusing to many who do consider themselves Christians. What is spirituality? What does...
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