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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We focus this week on the way Jesus redefines family. And why this whole story gives us trouble in a world devoted to the nuclear family unit.
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The word family has so much to it: positive and negative. But the call to expand our sense of family is central to our life in faith.
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This week, we skip over an important piece of the story—that the threat the crowds have on Jesus’s ministry—and the calling of the apostles.
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The religious leaders struggled to see what Jesus was getting at with his teaching on the Sabbath. Well, honestly, so do we.
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Our view of Jesus’s transgression of Sabbath law is often guided by our own view of laws. We must remember God’s vision for Sabbath.
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The nature of Sabbath is skewed in our imaginations, because we think we can work without ever resting—we should do the opposite.