Category Archives: love your enemies

I Want to Love Like Mother Teresa

Posted on October 13, 2025 by Steve Simms

Mother TeresaWas a walled-in nunIn a pain filled world.When she left the wallsTo help heal the painPerson by person,The world took notice.I try to goAnd do likewise. I believe that Mother Teresa was a true evangelical. I’ve never found anything … Continue reading →

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I Want to Bring Back the Dinosaur of Early Christian Enemy-Love

Posted on July 27, 2025 by Steve Simms

The early Christians radically loved and forgave their enemies. That’s a dinosaur that needs to be brought back into our hate-filled world. To love your enemies, as Jesus commands, (Matthew 5:44) you must embrace a deeper reality. To “bless those … Continue reading →

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Cookin’ Up True Love

Posted on February 2, 2025 by Steve Simms

My favorite thing to cook up is true love. I delight to heat up and “stir up the gift of God which is in” me (2 Timothy 1:6) so that God’s kindness and compassion flow from deep within me to … Continue reading →

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The Peaceful Purpose of Patriotism

Posted on February 16, 2024 by Steve Simms

To me being patriotic means total loyalty and full, heart-felt commitment and obedience to the highest authority. The nations of the world falsely claim to be that highest authority and convince their citizens to worship them as though they were … Continue reading →

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Learning to speak love language

Posted on October 8, 2023 by Steve Simms

I’m learning Spanish and the grammar displeases me, but if I change it to fit my desires, I miss it up. The same is true with love language. True love language isn’t uncomfortable when people disagree with or disapprove of … Continue reading →

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Dare to lovingly pray for Christians you disagree with

Posted on May 11, 2018 by Steve Simms

Should we pray for Christian groups that hold beliefs that we disagree with and/or that do things we don’t approve of? Jesus did. In John 17, Jesus didn’t just pray for His first disciples, “but for them also who shall … Continue reading →

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“God loves everybody,” but what’s that mean?

Posted on February 20, 2017 by Steve Simms

Some folks talk about God’s love to try to justify their rebellion against His love. They say things like, “Love wins,” and “God loves everybody,” but what do they mean? Is God’s love a blind sweetness that ignores our faults, condones our … Continue reading →

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Party like Christ is real (& present)

Posted on January 9, 2017 by Steve Simms

Christianity’s a lifestyle of passionate love for and growing obedience to Christ! People want parties to be extemporaneous, not stuffy. Why not church? We understand people getting impassioned about so many things. Why not Christ? A mind-made message, enters your mind; but … Continue reading →

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Love or sentimentalism?

Posted on July 24, 2016 by Steve Simms

Let’s move beyond sentimentalism to love! If you’re impatient; it’s sentimentalism, not love. If you’re unkind; it’s sentimentalism, not love. If you’re envious; it’s sentimentalism, not love. If you’re boast; it’s sentimentalism,not love. If you’re proud; it’s sentimentalism, not love. … Continue reading →

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America needs “J” for JOY

Posted on July 20, 2016 by Steve Simms

I made a “J” (for “joy”) with my hand in front of a map of America. We have relentlessly pursued happiness — but somehow we have missed out on joy. Happiness depends on happy happenings; but joy flows from deep … Continue reading →

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