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Members aren’t customers
Many organizations struggle with members confusing their role in the organization: wanting to be the people the organization serves.
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Preparing for Passion Week
Our anticipation of the Passion, for Holy Week, is intellectual and experiential. But what Jesus offers is a promise of participation.
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Liturgy—remembering together a holy week
The experience of gathering, remembering, sharing in the liturgy is essential for us in Holy Week, not just the Sundays before and after.
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Being Disciples
In seeking Jesus, we see people at their most invested. In clamoring for power and preserving status, we see us at our least.
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Sharing Grace—for Lent 5B
When Jesus starts talking about glorification, we forget all about discipleship — because following Jesus is hard.
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Discipleship and the cost of following Jesus
Being a Christian in the United States is super easy. We have churches on every corner and it is the dominant religion by far.
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No Easy Faith
Jesus offers Nicodemus a new way of seeing the world and a new life. Our attempts to make new life easy strip it of its true substance.
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Evangelism is more than Bible verses
The idea of putting a verse’s notation out into the world, hoping someone will open a Bible and be converted to Christ is just weird.