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Authority — Another Word for Love
Published 07-08-2009
In this issue, I want to share an excerpt from my new book True Freedom: What Christian Submission and Authority Look Like. The word ’submission’ is not a very popular word, of course, and you might think that this is a read you’d rather avoid.
But this book is really about relationships. It’s about seeing authority not as a synonym for ‘control’, but rather as God’s pattern of ensuring life. Many of us have a love/hate relationship with authority, but I think that this book will help you to discover that ‘authority’ is really another word for ‘love’ – if it’s rightly understood.
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Continue ReadingA Prayer For Graduates
Dear Friends,
Yesterday my 17 yr old daughter graduated. I was asked to pray for the graduates of her class. The following is my prayer. As I reflected on this threshold she is crossing, I thought of so many of our youth – and the world they are inheriting.
May this be a prayer we can all pray for [...]
Love-Deficit or Authority-Breach
Warmest greetings! I trust that the summer has given you enough snippets of quiet
reflection to maintain your personal equilibrium.
I’d like to pass on something that we’re learning here at Belmont Church, which
represents a substantial shift in the way we’re shepherding people into wholeness.
Much of the counseling ministry in many churches is based on a key [...]