Why Jesus doesn’t give a straightforward answer to questions about the greatest commandment. A scribe came to Jesus and asked, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?” (Mark ...

We should very well know, by now, what God’s greatest commandment is for us. We have to be clear about what God wants us to be and to do in this life, and this is none other than to love God ...

God's love for us is the fundamental presupposition of the entire Bible. ... This article also appeared in print, under the headline “The Greatest Commandments,” in the October 20, 2008, issue.

The Greatest Commandment appears in three of the four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Upon seeing the word “commandment,” one immediately thinks of the Ten Commandments God gave to Moses in ...

If they truly hold Christian values has a guide to their policy making then they must have forgotten the greatest commandment, honor the Lord your God with all your heart, and soul, and mind and ...

“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and ...

As Christians, writes the Rev. Fred Liggin, we must embody an expression of truth that is life-giving rather than war-making, goodness that is compassion-stirring rather than condemning, and beauty… ...

In Mark 12:28-31, the Scribes asked Jesus, “What is the Great Commandment?” He responded, “The first of all the commandments is: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord, and thou ...

Jesus, as a faithful Jew, based his entire life and identity on the Great Commandment to love God first and foremost, mind, heart, soul and body, and then to love others as he loved himself.

Today is the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time and the gospel reading today is a very short one, but it gives us a Commandment that God ordained for all who believe in him whether you are a Christian ...