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The Root of Joy
Jesus describes the foundation of God’s dream like a chain of love in which we share love and in it, find the root of joy in life.
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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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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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The Love Command
Learning how to love when it isn’t forced. Or optional. It is quite truly the only way we all can live full and true lives. Doing what needs to be doneEaster 6B | John 15:9-17 Jesus commands us to love. In American culture, that plays like an oxymoron. We think command and love don’t belong…
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Taking Commands
For SundayEaster 6B Collect O God, you have prepared for those who love you such good things as surpass our understanding: Pour into our hearts such love towards you, that we, loving you in all things and above all things, may obtain your promises, which exceed all that we can desire; through Jesus Christ our…
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Abide the Rules?
Jesus has a pretty conflicting relationship to the rules. And for many Christians, you’d think Jesus gave us a mountain of rules to follow. But really there is just one really vague rule and he constantly urges us to look past the rest to see it. Rule-breaking and rule-making in the love of Jesus Easter…
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The hard message of a simple love
To love as Jesus says and does Easter 6B | John 15:9-17 All You Need is Love? We are once again in John 15, which is part of this book’s accounting for Jesus’s final teaching at the last supper. Whereas Mark, Matthew, and Luke have Jesus get right down to the point, giving them…