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On the challenge (and hope) in following Jesus
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)
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
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
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.
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What’s our work here?
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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Between Proper 7 + 8 (Year B)
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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There must be something I should be doing.
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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Between Proper 4 + 5 (Year B)
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.