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Above All Love!

Above All Love!

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 Simply Fellowship (Above All Love) is a short, gentle podcast bringing simple Christian community to anyone who needs it — without the noise, pressure, or performance. Each episode follows a quiet rhythm: a welcome, a hymn, a prayer, a scripture reading in plain language, a short reflection on the Good News of Jesus, wondering questions to sit with, and a benediction to close. Fifteen to thirty minutes. Nothing more. Simply Fellowship is especially for neurodivergent people, autistic adults and their families, the church-hurt, and anyone who has ever felt too much or not enough for conventional church. You are welcome exactly as you are. Pax et Bonum — Peace and the Good. Also includes some other sermons and messages, along with audio classics.© キリスト教 スピリチュアリティ 聖職・福音主義
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  • What is Nonresistance?

    What is Nonresistance?
    2026/05/16
    ​Adapted into Easy English from "What Is Nonresistance?" by Tom Lock. Originally published at nonresistance.org and shared freely for all. Read by David Holdsworth. ​Where the Word Comes From ​The word "nonresistance" comes directly from the Bible. In the book of Matthew, Jesus says: ​"Do not fight back against someone who does evil to you. If someone hits you on the right cheek, let them hit the other cheek too. If someone takes your coat, give them your jacket as well. Love your enemies. Pray for people who hurt you." ​What Nonresistance Means ​Nonresistance is more than just avoiding fights. It is more than staying calm when someone is cruel to you. ​Nonresistance means: ​Refusing to hurt someone back when they hurt you. ​Trying to do good to all people, in every situation. ​Working toward forgiveness, kindness, and love—always. ​Staying away from all violence, all wars, and all hate. ​Remember: Nonresistance is not about doing nothing. It takes real effort and courage. ​What Martin Luther King Jr. Said ​Dr. King wrote extensively about nonviolent resistance. Here are his key ideas in simple words: ​Fight evil, not people: Nonviolence is a way to fight evil—but without hurting people. You fight against the wrong thing, not against the person doing it. ​The goal is friendship: The goal is not to beat your enemy. The goal is to make them understand you and become your friend. ​Suffer without hitting back: You must be willing to accept suffering without retaliating. ​Choose love over hate: You refuse to hate, not just refuse to fight. Real love is at the heart of nonviolence. This love is for everyone, even your enemies. Dr. King called this agape (a Greek word meaning goodwill toward all people). ​Faith in the future: You believe that in the end, good will win. As Dr. King famously said: ​"The arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice." ​What Adin Ballou Said ​A man named Adin Ballou wrote a famous book about nonresistance. Here is the heart of what he said, in simple words: ​1. It Comes From Perfect Love ​Nonresistance comes from a deep, perfect love. This love does not ask, "Do they love me back? Have they been kind to me?" It simply says: ​"I will do good. I will love. I will never hurt anyone, even someone who hurts me. I will overcome evil by doing good." ​Jesus showed this kind of love. He taught that your "neighbor"—the person you must love—is everyone. Even strangers. Even enemies. ​2. The Illusion of Force ​Most of the world believes you must use fear and force to stay safe. People trust in armies, weapons, prisons, and punishment to protect them. When someone suggests giving all that up, people get scared and think it is foolish. ​But Ballou says this trust in violence and punishment is a false god. It has caused enormous suffering throughout history. It has never truly made the world safe or good. ​3. A Better Way ​The way of Jesus is different. He teaches that good is the only real answer to evil. You cannot defeat evil by doing more evil. You can only defeat evil by doing good. ​The Rule of Nonresistance: Do not fight injury with injury. Instead, love your neighbor as yourself—always, and with everyone. ​To read more like this, visit nonresistance.org.
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  • Prescribe Nature Week 3

    Prescribe Nature Week 3
    2026/05/16
    ​If you haven’t heard of it, Prescribe Nature is an 8-week outdoor wellbeing programme designed for adults who need a little extra support—whether that’s improving mental health, reducing social isolation, or simply building back lost confidence. It’s held in the stunning, peaceful woodlands of Newbattle Abbey College and honestly, the setting alone feels like medicine... This podcast reflects on week 3 of this journey.
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  • Simply Fellowship — Episode 8: Not by Works

    Simply Fellowship — Episode 8: Not by Works
    2026/05/16
    ​This is a gentle space. No pressure, no performance. You don't need to have your theology sorted to be here. You don't need to feel worthy, or confident, or certain of your standing before God. ​You're welcome exactly as you are, wherever you are reading this — carrying whatever you carry, however long you've been carrying it. ​If you need to read slowly, or stop and come back — that's completely fine. There's no right way to be here. Just be here. ​Hymn ​We begin with a hymn verse. Read it slowly. You might want to sit with each line before moving on. ​Not the labours of my hands Can fulfil thy law's demands; Could my zeal no respite know, Could my tears for ever flow, All for sin could not atone; Thou must save, and thou alone. ​— Augustus Toplady, Rock of Ages ​Prayer ​Gracious God, ​Thank you that you do not ask us to earn what we could never afford. ​Thank you that the verdict you speak over us in Christ — righteous, beloved, accepted — is not a verdict we worked for, or argued our way to, or deserved by any accumulation of effort or goodness. ​We confess that we still reach for the scorecard sometimes. We still half-believe that we must do something more, be something more, before we are truly welcome. ​Meet us today in the gap between what we have done and what you have done. Let the love of Christ cover it. ​And may we leave this time knowing — not just in our heads, but somewhere deeper — that the gift is already given, and our hands are simply asked to be open. ​Amen. ​Old Testament Anchor ​Before Paul writes his great argument in Romans, a voice from the wilderness of Israel's own history had already heard the same word. ​"Come, everyone who is thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which does not satisfy?" ​— Isaiah 55:1–2 (ESV) ​This is the heartbeat underneath the whole gospel. The invitation is to those who have nothing. Not those who have almost enough, or who are nearly ready. Those who have no money. Those who are hungry without the means to feed themselves. ​The question that cuts is this: why do you labour for that which does not satisfy? ​Why do you keep reaching for something that will not hold? Why work for a righteousness that will always fall a little short, that will always leave you wondering if you have quite done enough? ​There is bread here. It costs nothing. That is not a bargain — it is a gift. ​Scripture ​Our reading today is from Romans chapter three, verses twenty-two to twenty-eight, from the Easy English Bible. ​"God makes people right with himself. He does this through faith in Jesus Christ. He does it for everyone who believes. All people have done wrong things and have fallen short of God's glory. God is kind to us. He does not give us what we deserve. He makes us right with himself as a free gift. Jesus Christ set us free from the power of wrong things. God offered Jesus as a gift. Through his blood, Jesus became the way for God to forgive our sins. God did this to show that he is right and fair. In the past, he had been patient and had not punished people for their wrong things. Now he shows that he is right and fair. He is right himself and he makes right any person who has faith in Jesus. So there is nothing for us to be proud of. Faith does not let us be proud. No! We must be right with God because of faith. This is the law of faith. We believe, then, that God makes people right with himself. He does not do this because they obey the law. He does it because they have faith." ​Devotion ​There is a question every human heart has asked, in one form or another, since the very beginning: Am I good enough? ​It shows up in different ways. The rich young man came to Jesus and asked: What good thing must I do to have eternal life? The Philippian jailer, rattled and undone by earthquake and grace, asked Paul and Silas: What must I do to be saved? ​Both questions are really the same question. They are the sound of a soul that believes the door must be earned. ​Paul, in these verses from Romans, is doing something extraordinary. He is not simply answering the question — he is dismantling the premise. ​The question assumes that righteousness is something we produce and present. That it is like currency: we accumulate it through obedience, through religion, through moral effort, through keeping the law. And if we have enough of it, God will count us in. ​Paul says: no. That is not how this works. That has never been how this works. ​All have sinned, and fall short. That is not a verdict delivered with contempt. It is a statement of shared human condition. It is the level ground at the foot of the cross. No one arrives with surplus. No one negotiates from a position of strength. We all come empty-handed. ​And ...
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