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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.
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Blessed—the joy in being entrusted
The concept of blessing itself challenges our visions of what it means to be given something of real value, even trust.
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Beacons of Blessed Hope—for All Saints Day
In the Beatitudes, we are offered a vision of hope that is certainly unconventional, but it is purposeful. Blessing is for our common thriving.