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Why Jesus tells us to love our enemies
In commanding his disciples to love everybody, Jesus is pushing us to reject the thinking we think is natural, obvious, required of us.
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The crazy idea that loving people actually works
People often concoct incredible scenarios to avoid dealing with the stuff Jesus is trying to say about loving the people around us.
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What good is love?—for Epiphany 7C
In the command to love, we are invited into a relationship that is neither weak nor stuck, but full of fidelity and life-affirming grace.
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The one way Christians reject Jesus
We try to follow almost everything. Except this. We really don’t want to listen to how Jesus wants us to love.
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Weird Love
In the Sermon on the Plain, Jesus challenges us to see love, not as something to be received, but as something to give.