discipleship
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In their desire to keep things as they are, the townspeople struggle with the opportunity Jesus offers them: to make a new normal.
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The gap in this week’s lectionary tells the story of the healing of the Demoniac. But that isn’t the part that astounds us.
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When Jesus and the disciples are caught out in a storm, it is telling how they respond. And more importantly how they don’t.
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This week, we skip over an important piece of the story—that the threat the crowds have on Jesus’s ministry—and the calling of the apostles.
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The word has its detractors. A lot of us have bad associations with it—in church or the courtroom. But it has a purpose worth noticing.
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Jesus asks his followers to live differently: from what they know, from their families, and from the world around them.