Before I was a pastor, I was a lawyer. The story of Jesus arrest and trial remind me of the summer I spent working with prosecutors in the county attorneys’ office. It was a jarring and eye-opening experience. Each morning began with the arrest reports on your desk; the list was longest on Monday because it included everything that happened over the weekend.
This is either a very easy question or an extremely complex one. We know what love is not: shelling a nuclear facility, cutting off supplies of food/water/utilities, bombing a maternity hospital. We live in difficult times.
I love the Winter Olympics! There is something about hearing the Olympic music, seeing the athletes enter the stadium at the opening ceremonies, people from all over the world coming together for two weeks of competition. The setting aside of politics and disagreement.