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Why we’re afraid to listen
In proclaiming the year of the Lord’s favor, Jesus invites us to see, not an ideal future, but an actual, present command for life.
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Jesus preaches a relevant sermon
Preaching on the preaching of Jesus requires we decide whether we are the subject or the agent or the observer and we are all three.
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Today is the day—for Epiphany 3C
When Jesus returns home, he heads to the synagogue where he reads from the scroll of Isaiah and makes everyone uncomfortable.
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Being Together
Our focus on being together can get in the way of making it happen–and doing the very thing we’re called to do.
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Avoiding the Gospel
In reading of Jesus’s visit to the synagogue, we are given a mirror to hold up to ourselves and see what we’d rather not.
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Gospel – what makes good news
Gospel, like “good news” is loaded. And WE don’t always like it. But the question was never whether we like it.
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Coming Home
The Spirit which came upon him and moved him to go into the desert. Now within him. No disciples yet. Just the Spirit. Jesus returns with one heck of a sermon Epiphany 3C | Luke 4:14-21 The first sermon For as powerful as his storytelling and rhetoric is, if this is an example of Jesus’s preaching,…
