Dante and other thoughts

So this thought is pretty obviously connected to humanities, but... What do you guys think about the classification of sins? Are sins divided at all, and if so, how? What exactly is sin? Do we sin only by actively rejecting the will of God, or is apathy also a sin?
Important things to think about, no?

God's Love

I think an important thing to point out about God's love is that it isn't always "nice." Obviously, we need to support those around us and show compassion, but it's also important to realize that sometimes the most loving thing to do is sit someone down and tell them that their attitude or behavior isn't acceptable. Also, showing God's love means stepping in where other people aren't and making changes in the world that are sometimes difficult (ie racial integration of the church). Love isn't always making everyone happy. It's about doing what's best for people in the long run. We need to be careful in the way we do this, obviously, but it still needs to be done. So that's not all there is to love, but it is an aspect of love that is often ignored. And that's my profound thought for the day.

So---I'm not exactly sure what the point of this is, but it's cool that I have something else to check up on the aid in my homework procrastination. Woohoo! So what is our first deep topic of debate or discussion...or blogcussion as the case may be?

ready...set...GO!

So it’s interesting how things repeat themselves. Do you notice that? Of course you do, we’ve talked about it. So, one thing that’s kept coming up for me recently is God’s radical love. It’s amazing! And I know we all know about the love of God. One story that keeps coming to mind (and actually class lecture) is the story of Hosea. This is one of, if not my favorite story in the bible. It’s all about God’s love! If you haven’t read it for awhile I’d suggest doing it! It talks about the miraculous love of God for his people. This brings up a whole myriad of topics but the one I’d like to emphasize is God’s love in general and how we need to show it to people. So, what does showing God’s love to people accomplish? Why’s it important? How often do we miss people, not just ignore them but fail to notice them? That’s a question that’s really scary to me (Luke 16:19-31). Do we love people on our own terms? Just a few questions, maybe they’ll be of interest to y’all, maybe they won’t at all. Comment, post new things, whatever. Let’s get this up and going!

I have no deep thoughts. Why invite me you?

the start of a beautiful thing

I love that we talk about deep things, and I also love that we now have a place to do so. This doesn't mean that we have to stop talking about them in real life or that we should. I don't want to do that. This way, though, we'll have a place to put thoughts we have about a subject we've been talking about when they come to us at 3:30 at night and no one is awake (except for me). We can elaborate and just have an open discussion line. So start posting!