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Between Proper 9 + 10 (Year B)
As our focus shifts to John the Baptizer, let’s take a minute to put that shift into context, particularly with where Jesus is.
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Choosing to Live
When Jesus is stymied in his hometown, we may be tempted to hear their stubbornness as rational, rather than what it is: delusional.
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The perfect length of beard
The pursuit of the perfect beard is a false expectation. How we deal with self-sabotage and perfectionism, however, is the real work.
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Fireworks are never personal
Fireworks are the definition of public displays. Explosions of sound and light, fire and power. A violent eruption to the mundane.
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What’s our work here?
In their desire to keep things as they are, the townspeople struggle with the opportunity Jesus offers them: to make a new normal.
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Home again?—for Proper 9B
Going home can be a kind of strained time travel. The past and present collide and people think we must always be the same. Always.
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Home—everything always changes
We need to not only accept change, but the feeling that sometimes rejects it—there is something at war in us that time always exacerbates.
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Between Proper 8 + 9 (Year B)
As we prepare to focus on Jesus’s return home, we should keep in mind just how famous Jesus has already become and why.