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Preachers: Do You Like Your People?

Preachers: Do You Like Your People?

(Political) expectations are the enemy of love.

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Jason Micheli
Feb 01, 2025
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“Expectations,” Paul Zahl writes in Grace and Practice, “are the enemy of love.” When others do not measure up to the expectations we have (sometimes subconsciously) set for them, our hearts harden and our love curdles into its opposite. Luther expressed this same insight…

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