"Love your neighbor as yourself" matters most when our common understanding is least.
02982 – Love Your Neighbor
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02732 – Love God
To love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to sing for joy when we are dying of thirst, to run when our legs are broken. But this is the first and great commandment nonetheless. Even in the wilderness -...
02555 – How Do We Love Our Neighbor?
We American Christians will always be tempted to allow our own freedom, liberty, rights, and comfort to dictate how we exercise loving our neighbor. Jesus will keep asking us to allow the love of neighbor to dictate how we exercise our own freedom, liberty, rights,...
02552 – “Love Makes Justice Happen”
Jesus didn't call it "social justice." He simply called it love. If we would only love our neighbors beyond comfort, borders, race, religion, and other differences that we've allowed to be barriers, "social justice" would be a given. Love makes justice happen.
01477 – Parables: Who Would Refuse to Trust a Good Thing?
As the parable of the Ten Virgins was about the happiness of the bridegroom at his wedding, so this one is about the ebullience of the lord's joy at throwing his money around. It is the theme of the divine party again, the party that lurks beneath the surface of...
01061 – Kingdom Feasting
In his daily practice, Jesus rebelled calmly against the deepest rules of his world. He lived his own parable of the Banquet and the injunctions of the master in it: “Go therefore to the thoroughfare and invite to the marriage feast as many as you can find.” In the...
00966 – Love the Lord Your God with All Your Heart
In my own conversations with Christians, I find that almost all of them talk approvingly about love for others, some talk confidently about God’s love for us, but few are willing to talk about their love for God… They judge that it is wrong not to love people, but...