"Love your neighbor as yourself" matters most when our common understanding is least.
02982 – Love Your Neighbor
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02159 – Love Neighbor, Know Neighbor
It's nearly impossible to love our neighbors if we don't know our neighbors. And herein lies the tension of our times: We live in such a connected world with such limited or nonexistent connections. Relationships matter. Stories matter.
01988 – Highlighting the Parts We Like
You're all into the 'born-again' thing. And that's great -- Jesus said that to a man named Nicodemus, to enter the Kingdom of God you need to be born again. But if you tell me that I've got to be born again, I can tell you that you need to sell everything you have and...
01966 – So, What Will We Do Tonight?
[1987 - extemporaneous response to someone's public objection of her being allowed to preach] While we are in this place debating about who can or cannot stand behind a piece of wood, there's a world out there. And the cries of that world are growing louder. There's a...
00343 – Let ALL the Little Children Come
"Let the little children come unto me and forbid them not, for such is the kingdom of heaven," Jesus said. He did not say let only rich or middle-class white children come. He did not say let only the strapping boys but not the girls come. He did not say let only the...