Faith
The search for meaning, purpose, and relationship. Our need for love compels us to seek it out, and when we find it, share it.
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The question we ask about our own lives: how am I to live? is often one that gets in the way of seeing what saints are really for: changing us.
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In an unnerving parable about comparison, contempt, and humility, Jesus reveals the path of righteousness isn’t based in our judgement.
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The search for meaning, purpose, and place is deeply human. Jesus teaches his disciples to fixate less on what they do and more on who they are.
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This is a section I cut out of this week’s sermon comparing the two main responses to COVID with what Jesus does in healing the lepers.
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This week’s gospel takes Jesus into the space between, the place to which neighbors cast out neighbors to punish and forget them.
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Jesus challenges our expectations of community, of borders, and how we treat those around us. Regardless of where they come from.