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Revealing the way of death
Luke makes it clear Jesus doesn’t “deserve” the crucifixion. Not only to maintain Jesus’s innocence but prove the moral corruption of execution.
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Being There
This morning’s lectionary is full of conflict and confusion, but Paul and Jesus are both compelling us to see that we’re the ones creating it.
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Facing Foxes
Jesus invites us into a new world of mercy based in nonviolent relationships and we’d rather kill it.
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Hunger
In Jesus’s temptation in the wilderness, we get a picture of resistance bigger than willpower and faith. A resistance to becoming powerful at all. Resisting temptation and power with JesusLent 1C | Luke 4:1-13 He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over, he was famished. It was a traditional practice…
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About the Food
We mistake the purpose of ashes – our symbol of mortality – for only being about death. They are also an invitation to life.
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A Love Superpower
The Transfiguration is the showstopper. But what happens when Jesus comes down the mountain reminds us what Jesus is really doing.
