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 usually read the parable of the bridesmaids as a teaching about preparedness. But it is a chilling challenge to selfish comforts.
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This week’s gospel comes to us as a final exam—not a random teaching. That context, in the last days, is central to our understanding of it.
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In both gospels for this week, we are invited to see things differently—about our world, the people around us, and how it all works.
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In the Beatitudes, we are offered a vision of hope that is certainly unconventional, but it is purposeful. Blessing is for our common thriving.
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The concept of blessing, as we’ve inherited it, has conflicting understandings. In changing our own focus, we change our approach.
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Let’s dive into the context for both choices we get for this Sunday. Continue the story into Matthew 23, or honor all of the saints?