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Sabbath Devotional :: Choose Love
MWEG’s fifth Principle of Peacemaking says, “Peacemaking chooses love instead of hate.” This seems like a fairly easy one in the abstract, the theoretical. I don’t think many people consider themselves hateful or relish or seek out feelings of hatred. Most people want to love and be loved. But it gets more complicated in the concrete, the specific, the up-close-and-personal and daily. So how do we choose love? Chapter 4 in 1 John is a master class on love, and I want to highlight a few verses here: 7. Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.8. He that loveth…
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Sabbath Devotional :: No Other Power
Many years ago, when our children were young, we had a situation arise in the Glenn household. Our 7-year-old son announced that his tithing money was missing. After some investigation, it became clear that someone had taken the money. This was the first real instance of theft in our home and I was devastated. I sat all five kids down and explained the seriousness of this offense. “This is stealing,” I said, with what I hoped was appropriate gravity. “And in this case, it’s not just stealing from your brother, it’s stealing from Heavenly Father.” Everyone vehemently denied culpability, and so I sent them off to school. At about 10:00…
