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Beyond Kindness

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Category: Spirituality

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Frank Viola is a best-selling author, blogger, speaker, and consultant to authors and writers. His mission is to help serious followers of Jesus know their Lord more deeply so they can experience real transformation and make a lasting impact. To learn more about Frank and his work, go to 20 Years of Projects. To invite Frank to speak at your event, go to his Speaking Page. Due to a new problem with persistent spam that we haven’t figured out how to control, comments are closed for the present time. To contact Frank, use the “Contact” page in the top menu.

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  1. Mel

    November 8, 2012 at 11:19 PM

    Thank you so much for this.

  2. rafael ortiz

    October 26, 2012 at 1:37 AM

    this is my opinion about suffering for the Christian. If you carefully look at the context of the New Testament, there was only two reasons why the first century believers suffered: 1: persecution, 2: self-sacrificing Love. It remains the same today. God will not use sickness, poverty, or punishment to conform us to the image of Christ. instead, He uses persecution and developing the spirit of self-sacrifice in us. God delivered us from all the curses of the law which includes sickness and poverty. God no longer punishes his children, Jesus took our punishment for us. that is called grace.

    • Frank Viola

      October 26, 2012 at 7:26 AM

      That’s not entirely true. Other reasons are the discipline of the Holy Spirit and the harassment of satan.

      • million

        December 3, 2013 at 3:33 PM

        I have been greatly blessed by this message my brother Frank ( It has really encouraged me a lot ). I am really experiencing this now , discipline from the Holy Spirit and harassment of satan. For the discipline is being :- stressed ,sad, loneley, fear,reaping the result of it , conviction , and have regretted many things and am repenting from them one after another , and for the satan is harassing me continously during this time for my salvation by making me feel that I am rejected and God has shut the door for me and that I am a lost person.

  3. Krista

    October 24, 2012 at 8:28 AM

    Fantastic! Just what I needed to hear this morning! Thank you.

  4. Angela

    October 24, 2012 at 3:04 AM

    Great post. Love the Psalms.

  5. Steve Martin

    October 23, 2012 at 11:29 PM

    “The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.”

    Amen.

    I constantly need to be reminded. Thank you.

  6. Christopher

    October 23, 2012 at 9:31 PM

    I needed to be encouraged, and this message came at the right time. thanks bro. love always.

  7. Mike Burleson

    October 23, 2012 at 4:59 PM

    Needed to hear this. Thanks Frank!

  8. Rebecca

    October 23, 2012 at 11:45 AM

    I so needed to be reminded of that today. Thanks Frank!

  9. Pat

    October 23, 2012 at 11:43 AM

    Great Post Frank! I really needed to hear this today! Thanks for sharing! Our God is a good God!

  10. Jamal Jivanjee

    October 23, 2012 at 11:18 AM

    Frank,

    What a great post, and very timely indeed. Such truth here. Love ya:)

  11. Shea

    October 23, 2012 at 10:39 AM

    Thanks for sharing brother! What a great reminder of the eternal perspective of His Life in and through all things…

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Frank is a bestselling author, speaker, podcaster, and blogger. He helps serious followers of Jesus know their Lord more deeply so they can experience real transformation and make a lasting impact. His blog – frankviola.org – is regularly ranked in the top 5 of all Christian blogs on the Web and his podcast – Christ is All – has ranked #1 in Canada and #2 in the USA on Apple Podcasts. He and his conversation partners also host The Insurgence Podcast. Frank’s books have sold over 600,000 copies and they’ve been translated into many languages.

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