love
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Radical Love and Life—for Proper 5A
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Returning to an earlier point in the gospel of Matthew, we are invited to a moment in which Jesus is doing one radical act after another.
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It’s About Loving Those Who Need Love
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Jesus pushes back at the impulse to focus our attention on one another, to the people who are good, while forgetting our love for everyone else.
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The doctrine of the Trinity is a challenge to the new and experienced alike. What it offers us is not the security we think, but that we can know.
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Greater Commands—for Trinity Sunday
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In the Great Commission, Jesus invites his followers to share the Good News, not convert the world to their ideological certainty.
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Keeping — the Certainty We Seek Is in the Doing
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2 min read
What Jesus tells his disciples is the certainty they seek is in the keeping of his commandments, which should be far more evident to us than it is.
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The most powerful symbol for us on Maundy Thursday is the washing of feet and the command that we wash each others’. We’d really rather not.