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Being Disciples
In seeking Jesus, we see people at their most invested. In clamoring for power and preserving status, we see us at our least.
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No Easy Faith
Jesus offers Nicodemus a new way of seeing the world and a new life. Our attempts to make new life easy strip it of its true substance.
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A Messy Temple
In all of the order of the Temple, we struggle to see the mess underneath; why things need to change; and even what to do about it.
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True Abundance
The return of temptation is a reminder of what our resistance to temptation is really about. Keeping faith in a life full of hope.
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Into the Wild
Mark doesn’t tell us what is tempting Jesus in the wilderness. But we know what it is about. Because we know what tempts us.
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How to Pray
When we gather together, placing ashes on our foreheads to remember our mortality, we join a very public and common witness.
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Following through confusion
Sometimes what we see in the world isn’t real. Or more precisely, real in the way we imagine it. Because we aren’t actually listening.
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Seeing the Bigger Picture
There is so much unsaid in the text. We’ll miss how powerful it is. And how much we already assume is just clearly there.