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Love Walked among Us: Learning to Love like Jesus is unavailable, but you can change that!

Who is Jesus? His name is recognized the world over. Christians claim to follow him. Muslims honor him as a prophet. And many Jewish rabbis regard him as a great teacher. Everyone knows about Jesus, but how many of us fully understand what he was like as a person? Nowhere was the vitality of Jesus more visible than in his love, a love unlikely any the world has ever seen. Compassionate, honest,...

Our culture would like to have a formless compassion without rules. But even that is a rule. We simply can’t escape rules. The Golden Rule is, after all, a rule. Earlier, we saw Jesus react to people who misuse rules; now we see him react to people who neglect rules. We instinctively know that Jesus is right about hypocrisy. It’s just plain wrong to wear a mask—to pretend you care for women’s rights but belittle your wife, to pretend you care for the environment but throw trash
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