“9 Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil;hold fast to what is good. 10 Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. 11 Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. 12 Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
13 Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality. 14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. 16 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight. 17 Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. 18 If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. 19 Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” 20 To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” 21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with

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. —Romans 9:12-21

Open Hands

• Romans 12:13 - “Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.”
• Romans 12:16 - “…associate with the lowly”
• Romans 12:20 - “…if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink.”

“Most of the chefs on the 50 Best list had made their impact by focusing on innovation, on what needed to change. But as I thought about the impact I wanted to make, I focused on the one thing that wouldn’t. Fads fade and cycle, but the human desire to be taken

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of never goes away.” —Will Guidara, Unreasonable Hospitality
“We all were born into this world looking for someone looking back at us. And we remain in this mode of searching for the rest of our lives.” —Dr. Curt Thompson

..when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be

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“The entire ministry of Jesus is appropriately captured in the phrase ‘divine

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to the stranger and sinner.” —Joshua
Jipp
“If you were to trace the hospitality of Jesus through a gospel, you would see that hospitality wasn’t one of Jesus’s strategies; it was the

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.”

“We cannot rightly raise our hands in worship of a God that steps towards us in our hard and broken and then use those same hands to push the hard and broken of others

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.” —Jason Johnson

Wet Eyes

• Question: What are the biggest issues men
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  with in the world today?
• Answer:
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  numbness.

Life can grind a man’s heart out. It can weaken and callous and wound and numb. We can just go through the motions so often that slowly our hearts shrivel, atrophy, survive. But we can also choose to

our hearts at the places they come alive. The places of beauty and brokenness, sorrow and joy.

“Live to the point of tears.” —Albert Camus

“Jesus wept” is the shortest verse in the bible. It may be the most profound. Here is a God with sacred tears on his cheeks. Being a disciple includes asking Jesus to teach us the

. Push back on the trivial distractions that rob you of your capacity to love. May God have mercy on our dry eyes, and may rivers of tears flow again.

“God wants us to have

hearts and hard feet. The trouble with so many of us is that we have hard hearts and soft feet.”

A Spirit on Fire

• Romans 12:11 -“Do not be slothful in zeal, be
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  in spirit, serve the Lord.”

We can’t all do the same thing, but we can all do

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• Romans 12:12 - “Be constant in
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  .”
  

  “Prayer is the furnace that

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  mission.” —Tyler Station