THE THESIS: The Lord Jesus showed unrelenting kindness. In my life, I have been fortunate to receive unconditional kindness and to witness it. But, I fail to fulfill this model laid out by Jesus the Christ.
Kindness is not surrender to evil. Pretending a boy is a girl is not kind, it is a lie--love does not lie--it also aids a delusion and denies God’s design. Like man of you, I have no problem refusing to surrender to evil like that, in a similar way that Jesus refused to validate people who stood adverse to God.
Kindness is not always meek. Jesus turned over the tables of commerce in the Temple--his father’s house--because the people who set them defiled the Temple and were taking advantage of poor people, putting an economic barrier between them and temple worship. On nearly every episode of the Podcast, we figuratively turn over tables in temples man-gods because those man-gods rob, murder, abuse and quite literally attack God’s design for his beloved humans.
What I ask God to create inn me is the unfailing, pervasive kindness of the people I will tell you about in the Podcast, all of them godly friends and mentors.
Being Easter weekend, I hope to share with you an observation about Christ’s last moments on the cross, which spoke to me anew of the ultimate display of unrelenting kindness.
Happy Easter, brothers and sisters.
THE SCRIPTURE & SCRIPTURAL RESOURCES:
From Like, 34: Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” And they divided up his clothes by casting lots.
NEWS AND RESOURCES
My beloved teacher, mentor and late friend, John Traynor. I called him “Monsignor.”
A second father whose family showed me godly love I can never repay
Todd, I listened to this podcast on Easter Sunday as I worked in my yard, and it was an amazing sermon. Thank you so much for your humble reminder to show kindness whenever possible.
It works , people like real ,we get to much fake ,even on the right