Mark 9:33–37 No Christian gets to say, “Children, that's not my thing. I’ll let the others take care of the kids.” Jesus’s response to that is to say, “If you can’t receive children, you cannot receive me.” Far from being a guilt trip to move us to receive children, Jesus promises here is that when we do receive these little ones, we will get more of God. But we must take time to think and pray about what it really means to receive children in Jesus’s name.

Mark 2:15–17. At first it may seem odd to link a sermon on our priority of “Loving All Peoples” to sin, but I believe it is crucial to understanding this concept. This passage pushes us to realize that there is a common ground to all the peoples that God loves. And we see most clearly that we are all found to be sinners.