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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This week’s gospel invites us to ask a deep question about faith and the Holy Spirit. What if she’s in us now?
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The struggle we have, entering into this particular gospel, is to recognize just how much context can reshape our vision of it.
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The idea of needing to know what to do and where to go is so natural. This is why Jesus says we already know.
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This week, we get a familiar example of the challenge of literalism. How we struggle to see the answer is in front of us.
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We like to be welcomed. But welcoming others takes effort. And between these two truths is what Jesus really wants.
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There is some serious material in the gospel narrative before we get to John 14 this week that informs what we’re reading.