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Where are we in this?
This week’s gospel can be read shallow or deep. But if we go deeper, will we like what we find? About Jesus or ourselves?
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Only the Beginning
Moving from the call stories to Jesus’s miraculous ministry might leave us with the wrong impression that this is normal.
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Sorry folks, Jesus isn’t normal
So many Christians want to pretend like being a Christian is normal or that Jesus himself is normal, but his works amaze and frighten.
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Between the Third and Fourth Sunday of Epiphany (Year B)
Before we leave the call stories behind, we should really deal with what they mean for us. And for the gospel itself.
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A challenging vision of discipleship
The thing about the call stories is that we take their character for granted. Because we’re in. But they are way bigger than that.
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Called to Share—for Epiphany 3B
The challenge of the call stories for us is that we might not understand exactly what they mean for us. We are called to enjoy a life of service.
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Believe is an active verb
What it means to believe is to live a certain way, not simply believe certain things. It requires a life of difference and effort.
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Between the Second and Third Sunday of Epiphany (Year B)
There’s an important gap in our lectionary this week that we’ll get to in Lent. But it is a valuable piece of the story in its context.