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When Jesus’s words sting
After the Transfiguration, Jesus has what appears to be an outburst of frustration. But is it? Maybe they are more revealing than that.
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Appear – for when we look different
Our appearance is invested with expectation and is fraught with mistakes and stereotypes. In other words: there is power there.
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The one way Christians reject Jesus
We try to follow almost everything. Except this. We really don’t want to listen to how Jesus wants us to love.
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Destroying everything over a word
We often seem eager to blame someone for the situation we’re in. Then we act as if we have no control over our response.
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Weird Love
In the Sermon on the Plain, Jesus challenges us to see love, not as something to be received, but as something to give.
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Blowing off steam or wanting something?
Leaders can’t always tell when we’re venting or asking them to do something about it. Sometimes we’re not sure ourselves.
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Love – Rebellion and the Valentine
We associate it with candy and flowers. The side of Valentine’s Day we rarely see is the side in which its true power resides.
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Two Kingdoms – The challenge at the heart of Jesus’s sermon on the plain
In the blessings and woes, Jesus challenges us to see things in a different way: to write a different ending to the story.
