Tag: Matthew 22:34-46

  • Love all the way down

    Love all the way down

    There’s a thing we miss about the great commandment: to love God and our neighbors as ourselves. And that is that we are made of love.

  • To be at least something like God

    To be at least something like God

    Our gospel this week returns to ideas of love and authority. Two concepts that seem, at first, to have nothing to do with each other. And yet…

  • Reluctance and Commands—for Proper 25A

    Reluctance and Commands—for Proper 25A

    When Jesus tells the lawyer that loving God and our neighbor as ourselves is the greatest commandment, are we truly with him?

  • Tracing two lines back

    Tracing two lines back

    The blessed servant or the righteous king lineage. When these two stories compete, which wins? And what does this say about us?