How Deep Is the Father’s Love?

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“Love shows its depth, not in loving those who deserve our love or in loving those who are easy to love, but in loving the unlovable, which is exactly who God loves. He loves the weak, the ungodly, sinners, and even his enemies (Rom. 5:6, 8, 10).” - Ref21

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Willingness to Confront vs. Eagerness for Controversy

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“Jude had a preference: ‘Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints’ (Jude 3). He wanted to agree, celebrating God’s grace in their ‘common salvation.’ But he needed to confront” - 9 Marks

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To Forgive, or Not to Forgive?

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“what if someone knows they’ve wronged you, yet doesn’t ask your forgiveness. Surely that justifies holding a grudge! Doesn’t their refusal to repent legitimize my bitterness?” - BJU Seminary

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Alistair Begg, gay weddings, and love

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“Christians who attend gay weddings are just like Christians who obey a transgender person’s preferred pronouns: they’re tacitly affirming sin.” - CPost

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What Evangelism Is & Why 3 Laws Are Better Than 4

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If “you only think of confrontational conversations, short-term intense efforts to guide non-Christians into instant conversions… then you have a pretty narrow, unrealistic, and inefficient view of evangelism.” - Word by Word

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Loving the Truth and Speaking in Love

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“…the danger of swinging from one error to another is not a new phenomenon. It is as old as the fall. Though it comes in new sociological and philosophical packages, the human heart has always revolted against embracing, loving, propagating and defending the truth about God.” - Nick Batzig

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Love Is the Greatest Apologetic

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“Intellectual objections to the faith should be addressed. However… It should be apparent something inexplicable on natural grounds is at work. That’s Christian love.” - TGC

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