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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When Jesus starts a ruckus
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4 min read
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
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2 min read
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
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1 min read
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)
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4 min read
The move to Jesus’s actions known as the “cleansing” of the Temple offer us different ways to see our conflict and his purpose.
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The real temptation
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3 min read
Stories of Jesus’s temptation are great opportunities for us to examine what tempts us. It goes much deeper than we usually think.
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Tempted Again—for Lent 2B
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2 min read
When Jesus says to Peter “Get behind me, Satan!” he’s resisting temptation; which means something Peter said tempts him.