Barry H. Corey's Love Kindness

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The book Love Kindness which was written by Barry H. Corey explains how many Christians have lost a key value which is kindness in daily life. Corey is currently the president of Biola University in California and introduces many stories during his time at Biola. Throughout the whole book Corey presents real stories and people to change the hearts of the people that pick up and read this book. Along with the stories there came a lesson to be learned and a bible verse to show how kindness is a Christian virtue and many have lost it. Many are confused about what it really means to show kindness and tend to mix up the term with niceness. These terms are night and day from each other and are not similar in their meanings. Corey does a great job in expressing the different kinds of situations that kindness shows up and many times others do not accept the kindness very well. Through this book many hearts will be changed from the touching ways that kindness has impacted lives around us.
In chapter 4 Corey talks about how showing kindness to those
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Kindness is easy to show when the other person receives you but is difficult to continue kindness when the person does not receive you. Through this book we have seen the ways that kindness can show up in everyday life which could be saying hello to someone, opening a door, or lending a hand there are so many ways to express a bit of kindness to everyone. Kindness can push us out of our comfort zone to talk to someone that we do not know or to sit with someone knew at lunch the list is endless. God has made everyone perfect in his image and it hurts when his people can not get along with others with their differences. Kindness has been lost in our world but it can become a movement to start doing good things and expect no return but stronger relationships and knowing God

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