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This week’s question: the easy route or the truth?
This Week: Epiphany 5CGospel: Luke 5:1-11 The call stories in the synoptics are familiar for their common refrain: Jesus inviting them to come fish for people. It is a great line and one so recognizably inviting. We get the point, even when we aren’t professional fishermen. We can translate it pretty easily. Luke’s version has much…
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Good Enough — for Epiphany 5C
In the story of Jesus’s calling of the disciples, we see Jesus connect with someone he has already helped, showing him even more.
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Pressing — when Jesus plays hard to get
In the gospels, the crowds begin to press Jesus and become dangerous. We rarely contend with what this means for us, too.
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Between Epiphany 4 + 5 (Year C)
In gap in the lectionary, we explore what Jesus is up to before he starts calling his disciples, and think about why it matters.
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Every opportunity to love
The Presentation of Our Lord at the temple offers us another opportunity to witness others’ response to faith, to embody it with hope.
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A Salvation Sing-Along
In the presentation of Jesus at the Temple, we may be drawn to a vision of salvation that is more metaphor than real, present, alive.
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Prophecy and Grace — The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple
Jesus’s visit to the temple is auspicious, amazing even. And it reveals much about where expectations will grow.
