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The Night Meeting Scenario — the Secrets of Redeeming Grace
Jesus’s encounter with Nicodemus is a beautiful expression of what love and devotion might look like, when we begin to uncover it ourselves.
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Reflecting on Nicodemus and Fear — for Lent 2A
Part of the challenge of the story of Nicodemus visiting Jesus at night is that we are too accepting of the inherent conflict.
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In Secret — the internal conflict of an open faith
Jesus’s teaching on secrecy and openness is complex. A more fundamental truth is needed for making sense of it: honesty.
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This is the Way — Jesus and the rejection of supremacy
Jesus’s Temptation in the Wilderness isn’t just a story of the power of evil or Jesus’s personal experience of it, but the very corruptive nature of power.
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The Tempting Away From God — for Lent 1A
The temptation in the wilderness isn’t a mere trick or a promise of true power, but a false invitation to abandon the very love of God.
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More Private and Public — on the paradox of Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday invites us to confront both life and death, reconciliation and condemnation, hope and despair and dare ourselves to not look away.
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Temptation and the Need for Discipline
We have a tortured view of discipline in the United States. One that is shamefully unChristian. But, like us, it can be changed.
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Mountain Talk — Command and Love In a Time of Fear
The story around the Transfiguration helps us better understand what is being said up that mountain — and what it all means for us.
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