{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"922 Ministries - The CORE & St. Peter Lutheran","title":"Love All (God.LGBTQ.You. 2 - Pastor Mike)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2244,"description":"In a culture where the temperature on faith and sexuality is often \"turned up to 1000 degrees,\" Pastor Mike continues the five-week series, \"God, LGBTQ, and You,\" by focusing on the second greatest commandment: Love your neighbor as yourself.\nBuilding on last week’s message about loving God most, this sermon explores what it means to truly love our neighbors in the midst of a polarizing cultural divide. Drawing from Matthew 22, Pastor Mike challenges the \"conditional view of love\" that often plagues both religious and secular communities. The big idea is simple but transformative: followers of Christ are called to love all our neighbors a lot—not just some of them, and not just a little.\nThrough the examples of the woman at the well, the self-righteous Pharisees, and the tax collector Zacchaeus, we see a Jesus who was \"so approachable and loving\" that it confused the people around Him. He didn't lead with a ledger of mistakes; He led with countercultural love. Most importantly, the sermon highlights the heart of the Gospel: God demonstrated His love for us by dying for us \"while we were still sinners\"—not after we had everything figured out.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/SmcptMfUFUmVjlIkwETl_QbE0AQZxjIqZhbOZpkgiGc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hODE2/Zjg0OTNkMGE3YmY5/MGM3ZDQxMzQxOWQ2/YzNkYS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}