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Forgive, Again
Jesus’s teachings on forgiveness aren’t just hard because we don’t want to do it. We like doing the opposite.
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While we’re focused on doing it right
So much of our energy is focused on what we are supposed to do at any given moment, we hardly listen to what Jesus is saying.
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Beyond the Right Answer
Peter mistakes Jesus’s talk about who he is as a question of identity. But Jesus is always talking about relationship.
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Tough Questions
When Jesus asks the disciples who people say he is, he invites his followers to dig past identity. And into what they have seen. what is Jesus inviting all of us into?Proper 16A | Matthew 16:13-20 Jesus asks his followers a pair of tough questions in this gospel. They aren’t complex, of course. Jesus isn’t…
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When all are fed
The Canaanite woman’s confrontation with Jesus is an opportunity for us to embrace the context – Jesus feeds everyone.
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God doesn’t want you to sell your brother into slavery
When Joseph’s brothers sell him into slavery, we may be tempted to think God wanted them to. What God wants is for us to change.
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wading into the weeds
Jesus’s parable of the weeds among the wheat challenges us to see evil in the desire to pluck weeds when we know it’ll kill the wheat.
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It’s about change
In telling a parable about seeds and soil, Jesus invites us to transform our vision of the world from permanent division to open possibility.