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Tough Love part 4

05/09/2017 17:38

Tough love isn't crushing somebody with your expectations. Tough love is loving them even when they don't live up to you-r expectations. Tough love is being tough enough to love people regardless... and being tough enough to let go when holding on will hurt instead of help. Tough love is not...

Tough Love part 3

05/08/2017 16:56

The toughest love you can give to someone is when they do something you don't want them to... and you love them anyway. And guess what else: When someone expects you to shove them away, and instead you wrap them up in a loving embrace... that's one of the most power (toughest?) things in the world....

Tough Love part 2

05/07/2017 10:39

Its not tough to pick on someone weaker than you. And its certainly not love. Its not tough to hang on to something because you feel like you can't let go. And its certainly not love. Those, to me, are the two ways that we use the term "tough love." What has always struck me about that term is that...

Tough Love part 1

05/06/2017 18:15

Let's look at this concept for a while. Because the simple fact is: You can't do everything. And neither can I. You can't reach everybody. And neither can I. You can't help everybody. And neither can I. And sometimes you do more damage by holding on than by letting go. Think about grabbing a rope....

Friendship part 5

05/05/2017 17:22

Friends are people you choose to love. Words of wisdom from my five year old. And as far as I'm concerned, its easier to just choose to love everybody. Because love is not about what people can, or have, or will do for you. Love is about what you can do for them. Giving everything you are and...

Friendship part 4

05/04/2017 18:16

I'm trying to say loving people leads to liking them. That's my point. You don't have to be someone's friend to love them. Because if you love them it might just start a friendship. Because in order to love someone you give them everything you have and everything you are, right? You be nice to...

Friendship part 3

05/03/2017 17:10

The point I was trying to get to yesterday, in my "wander around I hope I found my point somewhere along the way" way, is that I don't think you can love someone without BEING fond of them. Which is not to say you should only love the people you're fond of. Exactly the opposite. The more you love...

Friendship part 2

05/02/2017 17:57

The greatest love a man can have is to lay down his life for his friends. To give everything he has and everything he is, no matter how its received. And, as we kind of saw yesterday, we are all friends. Even if we don't know it yet. This, to me, really goes back to all those Rants and sermons I've...

Friendship part 1

05/01/2017 17:10

This Rant series was Logan's idea. I asked him what I should Rant about and he said, "Don't you always just talk about love?" Um... yes. "Friends are people you choose to love," he pointed out. And he's right. Because according to Jesus, according to John 15:13, "Greater love hath no man than this,...

Patience part 5

04/30/2017 17:21

You can't make anybody do anything. That was one of the first, best, and most important things my pastor ever taught me when I started to get into the ministry. People are going to do what they want to do. That's human nature. And a lot of the time it seems like people are going to do what you...

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