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Repent — the virtue of a second chance
There is a way we focus on what the word has come to mean to us, rather than what it means to Jesus — another chance at grace.
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Transfigured — We are more than what we look like
The appearance and substance of Jesus is too often treated as separate, and relating to matter rather than our experience of him.
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Repent—uncovering the hope in change
The words repentance and change are treated like concepts to hate or disparage rather than essential, beautiful, and hopeful.
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Radiate Love
The grace Jesus offers in these healing stories is a grace of transformation, of change, of the true hope of learning to be new.
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Jesus changes his mind
In these two encounters with the Syrophoenician woman and the deaf man, seeing Jesus change his mind allows us to do the same.
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Home—everything always changes
We need to not only accept change, but the feeling that sometimes rejects it—there is something at war in us that time always exacerbates.
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Healed —and the willingness to be changed
When we long to be healed, praying for God to heal us of what ails us, do we dare acknowledge that we are supposed to change?
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