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Tattoos on the Heart
Tattoos on the Heart: A Case for Apocalyptic Compassion - 1
Speaker
Dwight K. NelsonDwight Nelson served as lead pastor of the Pioneer Memorial Church on the campus of Andrews University from 1983 to 2023. During his time at Pioneer he spoke on the “New Perceptions” telecast, taught at the theological seminary and has written books, including The Chosen. He and his wife, Karen, are blessed with two married children and 2 granddaughters.
Offering
Saturday, February 23, 2013
More In This Series
“Tattoos on the Heart:
A Case for Apocalyptic Compassion”—1
□ Two asteroids and one pope back to back—
□ Romans 13:11 and Romans 13:10 back to back—
- Romans 13:8-10 The Message: “Don’t run up debts, except for the huge you owe each other. When you love others, you complete what the law has been after all along. The law code—don’t sleep with another person’s spouse, don’t take someone’s life, don’t take what isn’t yours, don’t always be wanting what you don’t have, and any other ‘don’t’ you can think of—finally adds up to this: Love other people as well as you do yourself. You can’t go wrong when you love others. When you add up everything in the law code, the sum total is .”
- “And do this—love your neighbor as yourself—now that our salvation is than when we first believed.”
- I.e., the closer we come to the return of Jesus, the more we need and the more we need to be.
- Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion—Gregory Boyle
o Compassion: pity aroused by the distress of others, with the to them.
o It is on the brink of .
“With That Moon Language”
Admit something:
Everyone you see, you say to them,
“Love me.”
Of course you do not do this out loud;
Otherwise,
Someone would call the cops.
Still though, think about this,
This great pull in us to connect.
Why not become the one
Who lives with a full moon in each eye That is always saying
With that sweet moon
Language
What every other eye in this world
Is dying to Hear.
—Hafez
Ellen White: “The strongest argument in favor of the gospel is a and Christian.” (Last Day Events 191)
“The power of boundless compassion”