Reverend Kirstin Springmeyer

Matthew 22: 34-46 It was one of those tense, crowded days in Jerusalem. The Pharisee’s gathered together and an expert, a lawyer, someone who knew the hundreds of rules, traditions, and fine print of the law, stepped forward to test him. “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” It sounded like a question about order. About priority. But it really was a question about the heart of everything. “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your...

It’s about all of us who have received something from God— our lives, our gifts, our families, our communities, our faith— and we have quietly begun to think of it as ours. God does not always build on what the world thinks is foundational. God often builds on what the world has thrown out.

What does God's grace have to do with fairness?