Sunday’s Coming

Guilt that burns (22A; Romans 12:9-21)

Love one another: good. But burning coals on heads?

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If we were to brainstorm what love looks like, we would probably write a very, very long list of possible actions before we got to “heaping burning coals on someone’s head.”