Using others as kindling to stoke our inner fires of desire is one of the ways we devalue and dehumanize God's image on earth.

According to Jesus, whatever it is we think anger and outrage are helping us accomplish, love will do a better job.

Jesus teaches his disciples how to internalize and metabolize the teaching of the Bible to energize our spiritual lives.

Jesus leads us into a righteousness that goes above the law to find the love, and goes beyond justice to mercy.

Life is love, period. Everything else is commentary.

The cataclysmic shift from Old to New Covenant changes everything about how we relate to God and one another and even our own Bibles.

Jesus pictures the Bible as a vessel, like a clay pot, that he has come, not to smash on the ground, but to fill up with its true meaning.