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When Jesus starts a ruckus
What Jesus is up to in the Temple is distracting. But not nearly as much as our attempts to avoid dealing with his critiques of the Temple.
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To be citizens, not consumers of the Kin-dom
What is behind Jesus’s outrage at the Temple? And what does it means for us? It begins with how we see our part in the system.
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Money-Changers—making faith easier
We struggle to see why the money-changers in the gospel are a problem for Jesus. Because we don’t want to see the problem itself.
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Between the Second and Third Sunday of Lent (Year B)
The move to Jesus’s actions known as the “cleansing” of the Temple offer us different ways to see our conflict and his purpose.
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True Abundance
The return of temptation is a reminder of what our resistance to temptation is really about. Keeping faith in a life full of hope.
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We aren’t herding cats
It sometimes seems impossible to motivate people to do what they don’t want to do. But cats have a way better excuse than we do.
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