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The assumed division of rivals is treated as impenetrable and impossible to resolve. But it is often only a failure of imagination.
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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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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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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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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 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.
Make a New Normal
