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Why preaching about love is tricky
The challenge of preaching about love is that we either treat it as an emotion we like or as cover for doing things we want to excuse.
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Love as extremely normal—for Easter 6B
In commanding his disciples love one another, Jesus is setting as normal what we want to believe is optional—and really, occasional.
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Love—we have to learn it
We often treat love like an emotion that we merely experience. But Jesus commands us to love, to treat it like a behavior we are to learn.
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Between Easter 5 and 6 (Year B)
To understand the love command, we need to remember that Jesus is talking about community in light of our divided loyalties.
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Are we too obsessive? Yes. Yes we are.
We’re conflicted by the thought that God is responsible and also so are we, making it about our own obsessions with getting it right.
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Abiding with Jesus—for Easter 5B
This week, we wrestle with an uncommon word: abide: and what it means for us. To abide with Jesus when we’d rather do our own thing.
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Being a hospitable host for growth
We are partners with God in bringing the dream into reality. Which means a lot of our work is about being a good host for the good work.
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Between Easter 4 and 5 (Year B)
The gap between the fourth and fifth Sundays of Easter highlights the nature of the love Jesus commands his followers to share.