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Brave in Love
Jesus keeps offering a vision of radical love. But for some reason we keep shaking our heads and going “No, really. What do you want?”
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No Competition
The parable of the righteous man is a set-up. And we can’t help falling for it. Because we don’t know what to do with his being wrong.
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Between: Is the Coming Kingdom Good? Bad? Or entirely different?
In Luke 17:20-37, Jesus gives a terrifying warning about the future. Here’s why we so often miss the point. We all take him literally.
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Saving Faith
Jesus’s message of restoration buts up against his critique of the status quo. Now, he invites us to see that faith can save us; and we can save faith.
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Lead with Love
We want Jesus to teach us how to love like it takes a methodology or more faith than we have. Instead, Jesus shows how that misses the point. Jesus and the teaching of uncommon forgivenessProper 22CLuke 17:1-10 We jump into the story with the apostles shouting “Increase our faith!” It makes it all sound random.…
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Between: A Millstone Around Your Neck Would Be Better
seeing the gaps in the lectionary. This week: the gap between Proper 21C and Proper 22C. The text: Luke 17:1-4. Context First things first. We are now many chapters passed when Jesus turned his face toward Jerusalem. This means we are getting far closer to arriving in Jerusalem than we are to those easy days…
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No Excuse Not to Love
We make lots of excuses not to love. They’re all trash. Every single one. Because Christians have no excuses to avoid loving other people.
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Unbound Grace
The parable reveals how blind the rich man is to reality. And in reading it, Jesus hopes we won’t continue to share the same delusion.