compassion

Moved with compassion.

Where was I? Oh, right. I was telling you how I write and think about you. Sometimes anyway. I ended by suggesting that God thinks about you and what might help you. If you are like me, you read that and thought, “Sure. A nice idea. But I bet God’s usually pretty annoyed with me.” […]

Jesus was preaching and teaching and healing. That’s what the text says. He was preaching and teaching and healing and he saw crowds. The text doesn’t say, though it implies, that the crowds were coming to where he was, because of what he was doing. The text does say, “When he saw the crowds, he […]