Epiphany 3C
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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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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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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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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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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, like “good news” is loaded. And WE don’t always like it. But the question was never whether we like it.