<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6605472</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2018 23:38:39 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>forgiveness</category><category>love</category><category>admonition</category><title>cafe agape</title><description>God made me a teacher so He could teach me how to love.&lt;br&gt;Weekly meditations.</description><link>http://agape.tknoegel.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (t k noegel)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>3</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6605472.post-7882386769047885818</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2015 02:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2015-12-21T23:46:17.072-06:00</atom:updated><title>Through a child we see the glory of the Lord</title><atom:summary type="text">Sometimes this child – 
Oh, sometimes
Sometimes this child makes me crazy
Crazy enough to forget
that in my hands she is most precious
and I am moved to remove her from the face of the earth
to strike a rock and sacrifice my promise for her silence
to rip stones to pieces and destroy the evidence of things that cannot be changed
to tear my clothes and beg for my own life to be finished
O, Lord, </atom:summary><link>http://agape.tknoegel.com/2015/12/through-child-we-see-glory-of-lord.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (t k noegel)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6605472.post-5714275543304967687</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-07-20T10:08:19.200-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">admonition</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">forgiveness</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">love</category><title>Love Requires Admonition</title><atom:summary type="text">&quot;Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted.&quot; -- Gal 6:1 (NKJV)Admonition, chastisement, reproof, rebuke, &#39;fronting out, whatever you want to call it, is a sign of true, deep and unconditional love. Of course we would love it if the people who profess to love us would just leave</atom:summary><link>http://agape.tknoegel.com/2010/07/love-requires-admonition.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (t k noegel)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6605472.post-6192897847856743652</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 03:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-07-20T10:13:17.600-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">forgiveness</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">love</category><title>Love Requires Forgiveness</title><atom:summary type="text">&quot;Then Peter came to Him and said, &#39;Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?&#39; Jesus said to him, &#39;I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven . . .&#39;&quot; --Mat 18:21-22 (NKJV)One of the pillars of the ministry of Jesus was forgiveness. It was also one of the greatest sources of confusion and derision from those who hated Jesus. </atom:summary><link>http://agape.tknoegel.com/2010/07/love-requires-forgiveness.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (t k noegel)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>