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For the Sake of Love — The Embarrassing Life of Service
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.
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Confusion at the Tomb — for Easter Day
In the visit to the tomb, we see the elements of Easter that are often pushed aside, like the bindness of grief and trust in the witness of others
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Risen — attributing the glory to God
We have a linguistic and theological hangup of attributing the glory of God to Jesus — a move that also deprives us of seeing the true grace in it all.
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A Threat of Grace — The love exposed by the triumphal entry
The radical nature of Palm Sunday is best seen in its wider context, so that we can see that we already know what Jesus has come to do.
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To See and Know For Ourselves — for Palm Sunday
Our own experience of Palm Sunday invites us to witness again, with understanding and hope, that we might always trust in Jesus.
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Good — the perpetual challenge of our darkest day
I always struggled with the name “Good Friday”. But it isn’t a question of whether it is accurate so much as what we think is being called good.
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New Life and a Refusal to Die
Christians often struggle with what is required for new life: that we accept that death has a part to play. We’d rather think the point is to live forever.
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Unbind Him and Let Him Go — for Lent 5A
In the raising of Lazarus, Jesus defies the expectations of him and opens the people to see the situation in a completely new way.
