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Blessing is an Invitation to Build Something Better
In the Beatitudes, we find ourselves pushing against our own priorities, against the priorities the world pushes upon us, to divide us, despise us.
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For Love, For God — for Epiphany 4A
Jesus opens the sermon on the mount with an evocative recasting of the nature of humanity’s relationship to God, and ultimately, to one another.
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Blessed when we don’t want to be
The first challenge in Jesus’s vision of blessing is it counters the common one. The second is that the powerful like things the way they are.
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Our saints are the antidote — Revealing God’s dream
The saints help us see the alternative vision that Jesus offers: that we can actually love as we are loved and give as God gives.
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Blessed by default
The damning truth of it is that so many Christians reject Jesus’s approach to blessing. It’s not a competition, but a co-op.
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Wealth is always relational
When talking about God’s blessing, we are necessarily confronted with the idea that we always seem to start talking about possessions.
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Blessings and Woes—for Epiphany 6C
In the sermon on the plain, Jesus outlines a relationship to the Kin-dom that is based, not on virtue, but on our relationship to others.
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Blessing — it’s complicated, actually
How many of us conceive of blessing is predicated on an ancient prejudice. That we are good and deserving and others aren’t.