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The radical nature of Palm Sunday is best seen in its wider context, so that we can see that we already know what Jesus has come to do.
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To See and Know For Ourselves — for Palm Sunday
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2 min read
Our own experience of Palm Sunday invites us to witness again, with understanding and hope, that we might always trust in Jesus.
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Good — the perpetual challenge of our darkest day
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I always struggled with the name “Good Friday”. But it isn’t a question of whether it is accurate so much as what we think is being called good.
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New Life and a Refusal to Die
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9 min read
Christians often struggle with what is required for new life: that we accept that death has a part to play. We’d rather think the point is to live forever.
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Unbind Him and Let Him Go — for Lent 5A
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In the raising of Lazarus, Jesus defies the expectations of him and opens the people to see the situation in a completely new way.
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Unbinding — letting go of hangups and living
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After Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead, he says to the people there a line full of meaning: “unbind him and let him go.” He was physical bound to their rituals of death, so in a very real sense, he needed to be removed from all of that to return to the land of the…
