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The challenge Jesus offers us is to look past our assumptions about sin and tragedy and instead toward what we do to each other.
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The human tendency to blame, to punish, or assume the worst — to compare — is at the center of Jesus’s call to cut it out.
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There is a way we focus on what the word has come to mean to us, rather than what it means to Jesus — another chance at grace.
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As Jesus is warned of his coming execution, he reminds us who is responsible for the executing and why the problem is really on them.
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When Pharisees come to warn Jesus of the king’s plans, we are forced to confront our own sense of what this means and how to feel about it.
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As they come to warn Jesus of Herod’s intentions, Jesus sends them back with a message: he know the king’s murderous intentions.
Make a New Normal
