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Wading through grace
This one verse, John 3:16, is treated like an evangelism tool. The whole experience is of a verse taken completely out of context.
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God is Love—for Lent 4B
What it means to love, to offer ourselves, to give and become different, is much bigger than any slogan we can come up with.
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Evangelism is more than Bible verses
The idea of putting a verse’s notation out into the world, hoping someone will open a Bible and be converted to Christ is just weird.
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Between the Third and Fourth Sunday of Lent (Year B)
Before we can jump into John 3:16 and God’s love for the world, we should take a minute to talk about Jesus’s visit with Nicodemus.
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When Jesus starts a ruckus
What Jesus is up to in the Temple is distracting. But not nearly as much as our attempts to avoid dealing with his critiques of the Temple.
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To be citizens, not consumers of the Kin-dom
What is behind Jesus’s outrage at the Temple? And what does it means for us? It begins with how we see our part in the system.
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Money-Changers—making faith easier
We struggle to see why the money-changers in the gospel are a problem for Jesus. Because we don’t want to see the problem itself.
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Between the Second and Third Sunday of Lent (Year B)
The move to Jesus’s actions known as the “cleansing” of the Temple offer us different ways to see our conflict and his purpose.