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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.
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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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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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The real temptation
Stories of Jesus’s temptation are great opportunities for us to examine what tempts us. It goes much deeper than we usually think.
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So Much So Fast
This week’s gospel is a whirlwind of action. But it also reveals a pattern of discipleship—a pattern set up by Jesus’s own discipleship.