Liturgy—remembering together a holy week
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The experience of gathering, remembering, sharing in the liturgy is essential for us in Holy Week, not just the Sundays before and after.
The search for meaning, purpose, and relationship. Our need for love compels us to seek it out, and when we find it, share it.
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The experience of gathering, remembering, sharing in the liturgy is essential for us in Holy Week, not just the Sundays before and after.
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The gap in the text this week is all of the events of Holy Week and what they represent: a political execution of a political dissident.
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In “The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory,” Tim Alberta offers an insider’s critique of Evangelicalism. And he almost gets there.
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The most obvious thing about the gospel this week is not its loudest parts. It is that Andrew and Philip are doing the work of Jesus.
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When Jesus starts talking about glorification, we forget all about discipleship — because following Jesus is hard.
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Being a Christian in the United States is super easy. We have churches on every corner and it is the dominant religion by far.
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Preparing for this week’s gospel, we should remember the context is in the midst of Holy Week, amid the effort to silence Jesus.
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This one verse, John 3:16, is treated like an evangelism tool. The whole experience is of a verse taken completely out of context.