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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The Transfiguration is one of the most impressive, confusing, and distracting stories about Jesus in Scripture.
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In the gap in the lectionary, we skip over two essential stories which set up how we understand power moving forward.
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The invitation to change—to be changed or to change the world around us—is both necessary and something we avoid.
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a mustard seed, yeast, treasure, a pearl. Something valuable. But what IS it? That things can actually be better than this.
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Abundance and accumulation—when we deal with the desires to have something (even the Kingdom), the limit remains us.
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The gap in the lectionary this week tells of the telling of parables. Is it valuable to the reader? Well, probably not.