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What's Love Got to Do With It?

1 John 3:16-24

4th Sunday of Easter - Year B

April 29, 2012

The Rev. Shari L. Rates (UMC)

What measure of love are we willing to extend to one another?

Through an extraordinary story, what Mary Johnson has been able to do within her lifetime speaks volumes about unconditional love under the anvil of forgiveness. In February of 1993, her 20-year-old son was shot in the head by Oshea Israel, a 16 year old, after an argument at a party in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Originally wanting to see justice, she turned her anger into compassion. Now she and Israel are next-door neighbors. Today, she counsels mothers of murdered children while he visits prisons and churches. He shares about forgiveness and reconciliation.

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A Blip in the Plan

John 12:20-33

5th Sunday in Lent - Year B

March 25, 2012

The Rev. Dr. Karoline Lewis (ELCA)

Relationships are complicated, aren't they? Parents, siblings, friends, in-laws, boyfriends and girlfriends, husbands and wives, co-workers, children. In quarrels and contradictions and controversies, we seek easy reconciliation. In the midst of the complications, we take them all for granted. In the middle of conflict, we imagine other possibilities. And we are kidding ourselves if we think that it is any different for our relationship with God.

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Other Recent Content About Reconciliation

Forgiving and Forgetting - Day1 Diner with Rev. Otis Moss III

It sounds so easy to say "I forgive you", but how do we really forgive.

Second Chances - Day1 Diner with Rev. Otis Moss III

Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.

May 06, 2007

Pentimento

Canon Caroline Westerhoff (TEC)

Caroline Westerhoff explores our responsibility as Christians in the face of horrific injustice.

April 09, 2006

Love Poured Out

The Rev. Dr. James B. Lemler (TEC)

The Rev. Dr. James B. Lemler is Director of Mission for the Episcopal Church USA, New York, NY, and former dean and president of Seabury-Western Theological Seminary. In this sermon he looks at what Palm Sunday says to the church today.

February 19, 2006

Why Can't We Pull Up the Weeds?

The Rev. Dr. Joanna Adams (PCUSA)

The Rev. Dr. Joanna Adams is pastor of Morningside Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, GA. In her sermon "Why Can't We Pull Up the Weeds?" she takes a look at Jesus' parable of the wheat and the weeds in Matthew 13:

October 07, 2001

The Freeing of Forgiveness

The Rev. Dr. Robert M. Zanicky (PCUSA)

Day 1 with host Peter Wallace is the voice of the mainline Protestant churches. Through sermons, blogs, and video & audio resources, Day 1 proclaims a positive, passionate faith for today.