discipleship
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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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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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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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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.
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In just a few verses, Jesus ties us in knots and turns us into our enemies.
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Jesus keeps teaching us about the limits of transactional thinking — and the life-giving beauty of sacrifice in his way of love.