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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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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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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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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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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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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Stories of Jesus’s temptation are great opportunities for us to examine what tempts us. It goes much deeper than we usually think.