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Serving in Faith
Jesus calls Bartimaeus to be a disciple at the time when the other disciples are struggling to see the purpose and the glory of God.
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Special Love
In seeking a special place among the disciples, James, John, and the disciples misunderstand an essential part of following Jesus.
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The matter of faith
When a man asks Jesus for assurance of salvation, Jesus ties his desire of assurance to his wealth—a message that scares us, too.
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Love as one
We struggle with the nature of marriage and divorce, especially in light of Jesus’s invitation to unity; but unity itself is the way forward.
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Let us all be free
Jesus engages the disciples in their distraction and confusion—naming the way they are becoming the temptation to sin.
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The Greatest Generation is our children
In the turning point in the gospel of Mark, Jesus is confronted with Peter’s ignorance and empire’s promise of safe oppression.
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The Seduction of Empire—rejecting its offer of fake peace
In the turning point in the gospel of Mark, Jesus is confronted with Peter’s ignorance and empire’s promise of safe oppression.
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Radiate Love
The grace Jesus offers in these healing stories is a grace of transformation, of change, of the true hope of learning to be new.