Posts tagged "One-Way Love"
College Admissions, the Summer of George, and the Gospel of Free Grace
Conferences / Education / Grace in Practice / Theology

College Admissions, the Summer of George, and the Gospel of Free Grace

by Mockingbird on Apr 8, 2013 • 4 Comments

In conjunction with our upcoming NYC conference, we are honored to present an exclusive excerpt from keynote speaker Tullian Tchividjian’s forthcoming book, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World. (Yes, the title is a shout-out to the man himself). This part comes from the opening of chapter nine, which deals with some of the common objections to the message of grace.

For many Americans of a certain age, the college admissions process is an oppressive and extraordinarily stressful area of life. It is performancism writ very, very large. One’s entire worth and value as a person is boiled down…

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Mockingbird at the Movies: Warm Bodies
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Mockingbird at the Movies: Warm Bodies

by Bryan J. on Feb 21, 2013 • 3 Comments

By my own count, there are precisely three films in the underrated genre of Zombie Romantic Comedies, or RomZomComs, if you will. The first was 2004’s Shaun of the Dead, a cult classic where the zombie apocalypse was the occasion in which mid-life crisis Shaun steps up  to win back his ex-girlfriend. The second is 2009′s Zombieland, where anti-social, nerdy germophobe Columbus thrives in the zombie apocalypse by teaming up with a crew of misfit survivors, one of whom quickly becomes his love interest.   The third, and probably not the last, is this year’s Warm Bodies, which does the…

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Desire, Beauty, and Mercy: The Romance of Grace by Jim McNeely
Books / Forgiveness / Identity / Reviews / Theology

Desire, Beauty, and Mercy: The Romance of Grace by Jim McNeely

by WB on Feb 19, 2013 • 2 Comments

The old commandment presses upon us the obligation to love, but the new commandment releases us into the power of love. He commands the wind and the waves, and they are calm. He commands us to love by first loving us, and so creates the love He desires. It is of grace, because love responds only to affection and not to coercion or force. Love, by grace, must make itself desirable to our hearts by sheer miracle or our hearts will not autonomously engage with affection.

Mbird friend Jim McNeely just released his new book, The Romance of Grace, and we…

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Another Week Ends: One Way Love, Platonic Tennis, Curmudgeon Law, Downton Anti-Snobbery, Ecumenical Shipwrecks, Dr. Hook, House of Cards and Justified
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Another Week Ends: One Way Love, Platonic Tennis, Curmudgeon Law, Downton Anti-Snobbery, Ecumenical Shipwrecks, Dr. Hook, House of Cards and Justified

by David Zahl on Feb 8, 2013 • 3 Comments

1. The hits just keep on coming. Spring Conference speaker and friend Tullian Tchividjian announced his next book this morning and the title will be familiar to some of you, One Way Love: The Power of Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World. Tullian, of course, is paying tribute to the definition of grace that PZ coined in Grace In Practice. If the rest of the book is at all like the intro (and I have a strong feeling that it is, wink wink), then this is something to be very excited about:

The good news of God’s inexhaustible grace for…

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One-Way Love According to Søren Kierkegaard
Books / Grace in Practice / Philosophy

One-Way Love According to Søren Kierkegaard

by Todd Brewer on Aug 3, 2012 • 1 Comment

A bit of a follow-up to last week’s fantastic post on Kierkegaard and imputation. It’s doozy of a quote on perfect, one-way, love:

“To be able to love a person despite his weaknesses and defects and imperfections is still not perfect love, but rather this, to be able to find him lovable despite and with his weaknesses and defects and imperfections. Let us understand each other. It is one thing fastidiously to want to eat only the choicest and most delectable dish when it is exquisitely prepared or, even when this is the case, fastidiously to find one or another defect…

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Hospitality, Manners and Grace in George Herbert’s “Love (III)”
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Hospitality, Manners and Grace in George Herbert’s “Love (III)”

by WB on Mar 6, 2012 • 2 Comments

From George Herbert, Anglican priest (1593-1633):

Love (III)

Love bade me welcome, yet my soul drew back,
Guilty of dust and sin.
But quick-ey’d Love, observing me grow slack
From my first entrance in,
Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning
If I lack’d anything.

“A guest,” I answer’d, “worthy to be here”;
Love said, “You shall be he.”
“I, the unkind, the ungrateful? ah my dear,
I cannot look on thee.”
Love took my hand and smiling did reply,
“Who made the eyes but I?”

“Truth, Lord, but I have marr’d them; let my shame
Go where it doth deserve.”
“And know you not,” says Love, “who bore…

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Go Boost Yourself!
Psychology / Theology

Go Boost Yourself!

by Lauren R.E. Larkin on Sep 1, 2011 • 2 Comments

Or don’t.

A little article from Everydayhealth.com, entitled “Boosting Your Willpower,” caught my eye the other day, and, lacking the willpower to resist reading articles about boosting my willpower, I read it. It reminded me of some of the stuff that we’ve been posting about ego depletion recently.

The gist of the article is: do these things (start small, start slow, build a support network, change your environment), and you will slowly boost you willpower, until, subsequently, you can conquer bad/develop good habits. It’s that easy. Period. A total “duh.”

But is it that easy?

As a theologian of the Cross, I can’t help…

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