Topic Features About Love
The Rev. Dr. Thomas Lane Butts
(
UMC)
Within our constellation of relationships we tend to be part of the problem or a part of the solution. Although we lack the wisdom and the right to become involved in the problems of everyone we meet, it is important for us to develop some understanding of why people are like they are, and how we can relate to problem people and people who have problems.
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1 John 4:7-21
5th Sunday of Easter - Year B
May 06, 2012
The Very Rev. Stephen Carlsen
(
TEC)
In school, one of the books many of us had to read was The Odyssey by the ancient Greek poet Homer. Over the years I have gone back and reread it and listened to it as a recorded book. What has struck me as I have re-read and listened to The Odyssey is how much better, how much nobler, are the human heroes than the gods in this story.
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Other Recent Content About Love
April 29, 2012
The Rev. Shari L. Rates
(UMC)
In her sermon on 1 John 3:16-24, the Rev. Shari L. Rates shares how the Holy Spirit can work through us to offer God's love to the world.
March 18, 2012
The Rev. Dr. David Lose
(ELCA)
In his sermon for Lent 4, the Rev. Dr. David Lose takes a hard look at one of the most beloved Bible verses, which with he has a love/hate relationship: John 3:16.
February 12, 2012
Emily M. Brown
(UCC)
The recipient of the David H. C. Read Preacher/Scholar Award given by Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, Emily M. Brown, focuses on a potentially frustrating encounter Jesus had with a diseased man.
January 22, 2012
Dr. R. Kirby Godsey
(CBF)
The noted educator and author shows us that religion has been a source of great human good, a deep reservoir of hope and grace, but despite its dark side we can learn to embrace one another as God's children.
October 23, 2011
The Rev. Dr. Brett Younger
(CBF)
We are called to love God with heart, soul, and mind, but too often we fail to use our minds to know and serve God and others as fully as we could.
The Rev. John Gunn
(other)
"What suffers so long and so much as love? What bears so much; what else imposes such heavy burdens? What way is so bleak and steep and rugged as that way out into the wilderness and up the mountainside on which love takes the shepherd in search of his lost sheep?" asks The Rev. Gunn in this episode of Be Still and Know.
September 25, 2011
The Rev. Dr. James C. Howell
(UMC)
Exodus 17 says the Israelites put God to the test, and God doesn't seem to mind. Is the Lord among us or not? God seems to welcome the challenge--God loves hard questions and doubts, says James Howell.
August 21, 2011
The Rev. Dr. Peter Marty
(ELCA)
Talking about Jesus as an idea is a far cry from trusting your life to Jesus, and believing in the concept of God doesn't begin to compare with actually knowing God. Peter Marty calls for a bone-rattling passion for following Christ.
