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Vol. I · No. 8 · October 2026

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Contents

  1. I69. Love Is the Greatest CommandmentOct 2
  2. II59. Jesus’ Suffering: Meaning for BelieversOct 2
  3. III73. Finding Your Identity in JesusOct 2
  4. IV85. Jesus and the Cross: A Path to LifeOct 2
  5. V36. Jesus’ Healing Touch: Hope for the HurtingOct 2
  6. VI55. The Fruit of the Spirit in Jesus’ LifeOct 2
  7. VII32. Loving Enemies: Jesus’ Radical MessageOct 2
  8. VIII14. When Jesus Calls: Answering His InvitationOct 2

Article I

69. Love Is the Greatest Commandment

By @remingtonltly582

A commandment sits at the center of Christian moral life with a kind of quiet insistence: love. Not as a mood you wait to feel, not as a slogan you quote at the right moment, but as the greatest commandment. The idea shows up with different wording across the Gospels and is echoed through the letters, where love is treated less like a spiritual decoration and more like the engine behind every other instruction. What’s striking is how practical that claim becomes once you

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Article II

59. Jesus’ Suffering: Meaning for Believers

By @remingtonltly582

Jesus’ suffering is one of those themes that sounds familiar until you sit with it long enough to feel its weight. It is not an abstract idea or a distant chapter in a museum case. The Gospels present a sequence of events with consequences that were immediate and physical: betrayal, public humiliation, pain, and death. Yet the New Testament does not treat that suffering as a meaningless tragedy. It frames it as purposeful, representative, and transformative for believers.

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Article III

73. Finding Your Identity in Jesus

By @remingtonltly582

Identity is one of those words that sounds tidy until you try to live inside it. Most people can talk about it, even debate it. But when identity gets stressed, when your plans fail, when relationships wobble, when your body changes, when your reputation takes a hit, the question stops being philosophical. It becomes visceral: Who am I if I am not performing, proving, pleasing, or coping? For Christians, “identity in Jesus” is not a motivational slogan. It is a spiritual

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Article IV

85. Jesus and the Cross: A Path to Life

By @remingtonltly582

If you’ve ever sat with someone who is quietly exhausted by trying to be “good enough,” you learn something about the cross of Jesus. It is not a decorative symbol for church walls, and it is not a vague spiritual idea that means “be nicer.” The cross is an actual collision of justice, mercy, and real human need. It meets the part of us that keeps bargaining with God, even when we would rather pretend we are not bargaining. When people talk about Jesus and the cross, the

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Article V

36. Jesus’ Healing Touch: Hope for the Hurting

By @remingtonltly582

There is a kind of pain that doesn’t only live in the body. It moves into the mind, settles into the daily routines, and starts negotiating with your hope. Some people try to keep functioning while their insides are in revolt. Others can’t even hide it anymore. They sit with the ache, the fear, the uncertainty, and the question that keeps circling: will anything ever be different? When Christians talk about Jesus’ healing touch, they are not only describing miracles from

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Article VI

55. The Fruit of the Spirit in Jesus’ Life

By @remingtonltly582

When people talk about the Fruit of the Spirit, they often picture it as a checklist for believers. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. That can be helpful, but it can also make the idea feel abstract. What changes everything is noticing where this fruit shows up first. In the New Testament, the fruit is not just something Christians are supposed to produce. It is embodied in the life of Jesus. Jesus is not only the tea

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Article VII

32. Loving Enemies: Jesus’ Radical Message

By @remingtonltly582

Some teachings feel like they were built to test the reader, not just inform them. Jesus’ call to love enemies is in that category. It is not vague encouragement, not the soft option for people who struggle with anger, and not a slogan you can slap on a protest sign. It comes with edges. The phrase sounds simple until you meet it in real life. You can forgive a stranger who bumps into you at a store. That is not the same as loving someone who threatens your safety, mocks

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Article VIII

14. When Jesus Calls: Answering His Invitation

By @remingtonltly582

There is a particular kind of quiet that comes when someone speaks your name with purpose. Not a name shouted across a room, but a name spoken the way a compass finds north. In the Gospels, Jesus calls people the way that kind of silence expects to be broken. He does not merely offer information or propose ideas for consideration. He invites. And the invitation carries weight, because it changes what your next hour looks like. When Jesus calls, the question is not only w

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