discipleship
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Jesus changes his mind
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7 min read
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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Pure and good—for Proper 17B
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2 min read
How Jesus speaks to his interlocutors in this gospel can be troubling or exciting, but our focus must be what he is teaching his followers.
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On the challenge (and hope) in following Jesus
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1 min read
It isn’t easy to follow Jesus. He pushes his followers away when they are focused on their own stuff. How do we embrace the challenge?
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Between Proper 15 + 16 (Year B)
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3 min read
The ongoing themes in John 6 are easy to miss when we focus on the image Jesus offers of the bread of life. Here’s what we might miss.
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The game of not getting it
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2 min read
With following Jesus, the point is not to understand or to win, but to understand Jesus. To get what he is about and wants for us.
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And we keep at it
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4 min read
In the pattern Jesus invites us into: work, rest, move: we get to see a life of opportunity, learning, growing, and ultimately becoming more alive.