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Podcast: Rotten Apple Seeds
Episode: Sermon for May 7, 2023 V Easter Year A
Description: Here is today's sermon, october 29, 2023, Proper 25, Year A. The congregation wanted to hear me preach on Matthew 22: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”
I use the observation that our limited, contingent love is transactional, and we tend to love God for what we receive from God. We are unable t...