The Golden Rule is the best of the Sermon on the Mount. But it isn't Jesus' last word on love.

"It's not about religion, it's about relationship." Really? But how do we have a relationship with an invisible silent friend?

Love, not law, is the way to maximum human flourishing.

The crucifixion of Christ was history's most murderous injustice. But Jesus claimed it was his plan all along. What was he up to?

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.