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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A couple pieces the lectionary skips over reveal a lot about the texts we’re reading. And much more about ourselves.
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Comparing ourselves and other people is a perpetual and constant behavior we mistakenly believe makes us better.
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Jesus doesn’t give us a challenging teaching here. It’s straight-forward. But our brains do something weird with it.
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The challenge of discipleship is not only becoming better or less bad. It is becoming self-aware enough to do either.
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The lectionary skips over teaching that essential: because it shows us how to understand what Jesus wants.
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The concept of expectations is fraught with dissatisfaction and frustration. Because we make life individualistic.