Compassion without Religious Allegiance
Can compassion be considered a universally accepted ethical and religious standard?
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True Woman: Partner with the Japanese Church to Share God’s Compassion
Samaritan’s Purse teams on the ground in Japan are working with Japanese churches to hand out blankets, water, hygiene kits, and other assistance—showing the compassion of Jesus Christ to people who are hurting and grieving.
http://truewoman.com/?id=1651
Don't Forget to Check Your Box - #6273
Your first responsibility of the day is to stop and see what's come from God for you for that day. There will always be what you need if you stop to pick it up before you rush into your day.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/don-t-forget-to-...
True Woman: Can I climb up in your lap?
Jesus doesn’t look to rub shoulders with the high and mighty, doesn’t seek to gain popularity among the rich and famous, and doesn’t care about his approval rating among the American Idol crowd. He watches for the needy and bends low to pick up the humble child who reaches for Him.
http://truewoman.com/?id=1275
What You Gain From What You Lose - #6199
What senses does God want to deepen through your pain? Incredible qualities like radar for the deep needs behind people's deeds. A sense of compassion, which literally means the ability to "feel with" someone. God can use your pain to cultivate a wonderful tenderness in your heart and your responses. People who have been through the valley with Jesus emerge with an amazing ability to care, to wait, and to trust God.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/what-you-gain-from-what-you-lose-...
True Woman Blog: What will—and won’t—draw others to Christ
People may not be impressed by the things you say “no” to. But as you kindly, compassionately, humbly love and serve them, they'll find themselves being drawn to the Christ they see in you!
http://truewoman.com/?id=1206
Time for an Attitude Check
What is the biblical way to respond to Muslims?
http://voiceofchristmedia.org/impact-news/74-time-for-an-attitude-check.html
Empathy - a Christian perspective
When Jesus traveled about he had empathy for all the crowds he encountered. They were lost and looking for someone to guide them, just like sheep need a shepherd.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%209:36&version=NIV
Consumed in the Bible - a Christian perspective
Left on our own, we would be consumed by our own sin, and the penalty for it. But God's great compassion prompts Him to offer us a way out to spare us from that fate.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Lamentations%203:21-22&version=NIV
Street Children
In partnership with Compassion International-Peru and the Christian and Missionary Alliance, Biblica is ministering to thousands of these children with God's Word—Bibles, Gospels of John, an illustrated children’s New Testament calledEncuentros con Dios, and Aventuras bíblicas, Biblica's Spanish version of My Monthly Bible Reader.
http://biblica.com/ministry/pagetwo/pdf/pagetwo_issue_06_mmbr.pdf
Fragile Stickers - #2632
A lot of times we handle people roughly in reaction to how they handled us. But Jesus calls us to do pro-active talk, not reactive, not treating people as we were treated by as we want them to treat us, and treating them, not as they have treated you, but as Jesus has treated you.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/fragile-stickers-2632