Our Summer Series, Essentials: basics to following the way of Jesus, explores five passages deemed essential by five practitioners and followers of the way. Prison chaplain Tim Morris looks at Jesus’ challenging call to love, forgive, and pray for those who may be hard to love.

‘Essentials’ passage: Matthew 5:43-48

‘Going Deeper’ recommendation: Jacques Philippe’s The Eight Doors of the Kingdom: Meditations on the Beatitudes