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 offers two teachings this week, beginning each with a familiar phrase “the kingdom is like” inviting his followers to look from different views.
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We treat dreams as optional rather than vital and skepticism like something virtuous and real. This arrangement reinforces failure.
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Before we find ourselves in the comfortable place of receiving parables on a Sunday morning, we have to see the context.
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We struggle with talking about family because we have conflicting ideas about the idea, and more importantly, how we embody 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.