discipleship
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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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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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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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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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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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Stories of Jesus’s temptation are great opportunities for us to examine what tempts us. It goes much deeper than we usually think.