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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Jesus undermines the prohibition of relationship between the ritually pure and the condemned because grace is more important.
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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 they come to warn Jesus of Herod’s intentions, Jesus sends them back with a message: he know the king’s murderous intentions.
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Jesus describes Jerusalem as the city that kills its prophets, and it forces us to deal with the brutal nature of national power.
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In the temptation in the wilderness, we get to see the challenge of power — not for Jesus exactly, but for every one of us instead.