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New Life and a Refusal to Die
Christians often struggle with what is required for new life: that we accept that death has a part to play. We’d rather think the point is to live forever.
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A New Opportunity to Live With Grace
The encounter of the sighted man born blind with the Pharisees reminds us that the grace of God is something radically transcendent.
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A Family Reunion — the unique power of radical hospitality
When Jesus visits with the woman at the well, we are invited into an instructive moment; to be radically present to build uncommon intimacy.
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The Night Meeting Scenario — the Secrets of Redeeming Grace
Jesus’s encounter with Nicodemus is a beautiful expression of what love and devotion might look like, when we begin to uncover it ourselves.
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This is the Way — Jesus and the rejection of supremacy
Jesus’s Temptation in the Wilderness isn’t just a story of the power of evil or Jesus’s personal experience of it, but the very corruptive nature of power.
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More Private and Public — on the paradox of Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday invites us to confront both life and death, reconciliation and condemnation, hope and despair and dare ourselves to not look away.
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Mountain Talk — Command and Love In a Time of Fear
The story around the Transfiguration helps us better understand what is being said up that mountain — and what it all means for us.
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Just a Little Bit Better — on the low bar of faith
In describing the path before them, Jesus offers metaphors of salt and light to inspire us, but the least we can do is not be total jerks.