1. Love Your Enemy Essay
What should we do when others hate us and/or we hate them? How should we treat our enemies? Jesus taught an unprecedented, counter-cultural answer to this life-and-death question. But his teaching is even more powerful when we see it in its larger historical context. Read the rest of "Love Your Enemy" by Dr. Andrew DeCort here.
2. Enemy Inventory, Emotional Awareness, and Practice
The following three exercises invite you into honest introspection. They help you to see your enemies, to understand what you’re feeling toward them, and to imagine and embrace healthy responses to those feelings based on the particular needs and opportunities in your context.
3. 35 Practices of Enemy-Love
“Love your enemies” was Jesus’s most groundbreaking, innovative teaching (Matthew 5:44; Luke 6:27). Jesus put enemy-love at the very center of his understanding of God and God’s kingdom. In fact, Jesus made loving our enemies mandatory for being children of God.
These books and articles deepen our understanding and energize our practice of loving our enemies. Click here to view the full list.