October 13, 2024
Rev. Dr. Neil Thomas
Made in America
If God is as big as we claim and as loving as we contend, all life is equally valuable wherever it arrives from or currently resides—and yes, spiritually speaking, a child five thousand miles away is as inherently beautiful and worthy of protection as my own—and your own. There is no border on real compassion and there aren’t varying degrees of human worth—no matter what anyone may say or believe. If America is first, Jesus can only be a very distant second.

If God is Love, Don't Be a Jerk

What if upon Jesus’ return his first question to us is: “I asked you to do one thing: love. So, what happened?” If God is love and if Jesus is the perfect expression of that love, and if we are supposed to follow that Jesus—how can we so often be love-impaired? For as long as human beings have been declaring devotion to a God of love, they have been gloriously screwing it up by being hateful in the process. The Bible doesn’t shy away from that, and neither should we. Join us as we explore some of the ways we fall short of the call to “love God, self, and neighbor” through the book and sermon series If God is Love, Don’t be a Jerk!

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