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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.
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Witness is a participatory word
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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Live Differently
Jesus asks his followers to live differently: from what they know, from their families, and from the world around them.
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Standing Against the World
When Jesus says that we are not “of the world,” he isn’t talking spiritually. We try to avoid thinking about what it really means for us.
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Trust in Love
In the Ascension, we are invited to reflect on the departure of Jesus from his disciples, and why it is that we always hate goodbyes.