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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In a parable that draws our minds to fairness and merit, Jesus compels us to address how money affects our neighbors and neighborhoods.
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Wealth, hard work, and fairness are all tangled up in our imagination. This blinds us to our impact on the experiences of others.
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Jesus’s teachings on marriage, children, and wealth are a reminder of our weakness and how God’s dream is actually arranged.
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The problem with mercy is we don’t trust others with it. Which means, whether we like it or not, that we also don’t trust God with it.
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This week, we wrestle with the nature of forgiveness and mercy. We do so knowing we might not want to offer it. But we can so choose to.
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Rather than think of mercy as something we’re supposed to do when something happens, we cast it as a way of being in the world.