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Having Compassion One of Another

August 30, 2010

By: Dr. Paul Kingsbury In our study on “compassion”, we have learned that compassion is measureable, merciful, and moving. Let’s remember a few other facts about this topic: Compassion is oftentimes mistakenly identified as love, though is it not like agape love. If you say of someone in a relationship, “Oh, I don’t love them [...]

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Having Compassion One of Another

August 23, 2010

by Dr. Paul Kingsbury Last week, we began this study on “compassion”. Let’s remember a few things: In the language of the New Testament, the word compassion comes from the word sumpathes, from which we get our word ‘sympathy or sympathetic’. Compassion is rooted in a word that means ‘to experience pain together’. Someone said [...]

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Having Compassion One of Another

August 16, 2010

In the language of the New Testament, the word compassion comes from the word sumpathes, from which we get our word ‘sympathy or sympathetic’. Compassion is rooted in a word that means ‘to experience pain together’. Someone said it this way, “Compassion is your pain in my heart.” When you and I have sympathy for [...]

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