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Love – Rebellion and the Valentine
We associate it with candy and flowers. The side of Valentine’s Day we rarely see is the side in which its true power resides.
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Blessings and Woes
In the sermon on the plain, Jesus offers a teaching that feels opposite to our expectations – to see what we’re missing.
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You – called out and called in by scripture
The sermon on the plains offers a poignant opportunity to dig into why we struggle with seeing ourself in scripture.
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Being tired of the pandemic isn’t a theology
The demand for in-person only gathering is theologically-shallow. It is also shallow in practice and tradition.
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The Dangerous Side of Blessing
Jesus almost breaks their nets and sinks their boats. We refuse to recognize that great abundance is not objectively good.
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“Doctor, cure yourself!”
Jesus’s return home goes exactly as he expects. Which is to say, the people’s reactionary response is quite predictable.
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Avoiding the Gospel
In reading of Jesus’s visit to the synagogue, we are given a mirror to hold up to ourselves and see what we’d rather not.
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Gospel – what makes good news
Gospel, like “good news” is loaded. And WE don’t always like it. But the question was never whether we like it.