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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As we enter a season full of tradition and desire to remember practices from the past, we are reminded that the season is about change.
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Moving from one Year A in the lectionary to Year B is a strangely smooth transition, as we continue to ruminate in difficult ideas.
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There imperative of the gospel forces us to deal with more than who we are; we are forced to examine our actions in everything we do.
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The teaching at the end of Matthew 25 serves to remind Christians of our focus: not to our own interests, but in helping those around us.
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“When did I do that?” — the self-interrogating question of who we are and who we imagine ourselves to be — is our eternal frustration.
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We conclude the lectionary cycle this week with the stunning conclusion to the confrontational arc in Jerusalem: that should hit us as right.