Water's Edge Church
God's Self-Sacrificing Love
Locations & Times
Water's Edge Church
309 Holden Ave, Henning, MN 56551, USA
Sunday 9:00 AM
Tim Keller tweet:
Of all the powers, love forgives the most but condones the least.
Of all the powers, love forgives the most but condones the least.
C.S. Lewis, "The Problem of Pain":
“The Church is the Lord's bride whom He so loves that in her no spot or wrinkle is endurable. For the truth which this analogy serves to emphasise is that Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved; that the mere ‘kindness’ which tolerates anything except suffering in its object is, in that respect, at the opposite pole from Love. When we fall in love with a woman, do we cease to care whether she is clean or dirty, fair or foul? Do we not rather then first begin to care? Does any woman regard it as a sign of love in a man that he neither knows nor cares how she is looking? Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. Love is more sensitive than hatred itself to every blemish in the beloved; his ‘feeling is more soft and sensible than are the tender horns of cockled snails’. Of all powers he forgives most; but he condones least: he is pleased with little, but demands all.”
“The Church is the Lord's bride whom He so loves that in her no spot or wrinkle is endurable. For the truth which this analogy serves to emphasise is that Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved; that the mere ‘kindness’ which tolerates anything except suffering in its object is, in that respect, at the opposite pole from Love. When we fall in love with a woman, do we cease to care whether she is clean or dirty, fair or foul? Do we not rather then first begin to care? Does any woman regard it as a sign of love in a man that he neither knows nor cares how she is looking? Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. Love is more sensitive than hatred itself to every blemish in the beloved; his ‘feeling is more soft and sensible than are the tender horns of cockled snails’. Of all powers he forgives most; but he condones least: he is pleased with little, but demands all.”
Benediction:
May you trust the wisdom of the Father, that every word and move of his hand is an intentional act of love.
May you take delight in the Son, whose body was shed and whose blood was poured out for your pardon.
May you find your life in the Holy Spirit, that the power and presence of God may erupt from your life for the purpose of advancing his kingdom.
May you trust the wisdom of the Father, that every word and move of his hand is an intentional act of love.
May you take delight in the Son, whose body was shed and whose blood was poured out for your pardon.
May you find your life in the Holy Spirit, that the power and presence of God may erupt from your life for the purpose of advancing his kingdom.