It's All About Love (Song of Songs 2:1-7)
Love is an attention to the whole person, and seeks to endure for the long haul. This podcast is also a blog post at https://timehrhardt.com/

Love is an attention to the whole person, and seeks to endure for the long haul. This podcast is also a blog post at https://timehrhardt.com/
The Song, in history past, once functioned as a beautiful path to deep intimacy with God. Methinks it behooves us to recover this. This podcast is also a blog post at https://timehrhardt.com/
The safe and stable way to live is to participate in the rhythms of mercy and justice that are woven into the fabric of the universe. This podcast is also a blog post at https://timehrhardt.com/
It’s okay to not feel okay. This podcast is also a blog post at https://timehrhardt.com/
Looking at history from only one angle is really not seeing history at all. This podcast is also a blog post at https://timehrhardt.com/
Jesus was causing the men to fold their arms in disgust, and the ladies to squirm in their pews with agitation. This podcast is also a blog post at https://timehrhardt.com/
How we go about doing our material work comes from our immaterial work. This podcast is also a blog post at https://timehrhardt.com/
Good choices bring life and peace; bad decisions lead to death and division. This podcast is also a blog post at https://timehrhardt.com/
If we are to follow the old adage, “follow the money,” we would discover a governmental system that extracted money from others; and produces a lot of oppression, grievances, and exploitation. This podcast is also a blog post at https://timehrhardt.com/
No one can be spiritually growing, healthy, and mature without the dynamic of giving and receiving. This podcast is also a blog post at https://timehrhardt.com/
Why do any of us do what we do? This podcast is also a blog post at https://timehrhardt.com/
The choices we make, how we go about making those decisions, and the way in which we implement them, reflects whether the life of Christ is within us, or not. This podcast is also a blog post at https://timehrhardt.com/
Jesus Christ helps us fit, even though we come from the island of misfit toys. This podcast is also a blog post at https://timehrhardt.com/
It is always open season on passing along wise and good values, no matter whether it’s in a calm or a calamitous season of life. This podcast is also a blog post at https://timehrhardt.com/
Everyone faces injustice, and things that are not right, in this life. The trick is to deal with it, without becoming unjust ourselves. This podcast is also a blog post at https://timehrhardt.com/
We can perhaps learn more from Abishag than from anyone else concerning death – to be present, listen, and serve. This podcast is also a blog post at https://timehrhardt.com/
I wonder what stirs within you as you read and encounter the story of King David after the death of his son Absalom…
We have been given the ability as a redeemed believer, and as a redeemed community, to grow spiritually. This podcast is also a blog post at https://timehrhardt.com/
Letting God be God means not to try and control things we have no control over. Rather, it means to affirm that the Lord is willing and capable of handling our worst stuff. This podcast is also a blog post at https://timehrhardt.com/
If we will but taste Jesus, we will come to see something very different about him. This podcast is also a blog post at https://timehrhardt.com/
Whenever we hear the cry “It’s not fair!” there is often, not far behind, an angry person seeking to become judge, jury, and executioner. This podcast is also a blog post at https://timehrhardt.com/
If guilt, shame, evil, and sin go unchecked for too long, it makes for a terrible mess of people’s lives. This podcast is also a blog post at https://timehrhardt.com/
The Lord is not slow in keeping promises or doing what is right. Rather, God is patiently waiting for humans to come to repentance and faith. This podcast is also a blog post at https://timehrhardt.com/
Discriminatory behavior shrinks one’s faith and makes it small – whereas including others, and seeing their inherent worth as God’s image-bearing creatures, increases our faith and helps it grow large. This podcast is also a blog post at https://timehrhardt.com/
I hope, if you in some way relate to Tamar, that you are seen this day by someone who cares, and by a God who understands and grieves along with you. This podcast is also a blog post at https://timehrhardt.com/
In an effort to keep the secrets, the lies morph into more bad decisions, and more bad decisions become ever-increasing bad actions. This podcast is also a blog post at https://timehrhardt.com/
The Lord consistently acts from a place of compassion and commitment to doing what is best for the community. This podcast is also a blog post at https://timehrhardt.com/
We need the law of love, and the love of law, in order to rightly relate to our neighbor and be concerned for the common justice of all persons. This podcast is also a blog post at https://timehrhardt.com/
But if we remember our history with God, and God’s history with others, perhaps we will not take our spiritual lives for granted, nor let our spirits fall into disuse. This podcast is also a blog post at https://timehrhardt.com/
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. This podcast is also a blog post at https://timehrhardt.com/