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Seeing the Bigger Picture
There is so much unsaid in the text. We’ll miss how powerful it is. And how much we already assume is just clearly there.
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So many opportunities
The undercurrent of the early ministry of Jesus is how much opportunity he sees in what is to follow. And in how many see the same.
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Keep it about the Good News—for Epiphany 5B
When we read about Jesus’s exorcizing of demons, many of us focus on belief and facts, rather than the message Jesus shares.
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Between the Fourth and Fifth Sunday of Epiphany (Year B)
In Jesus’s visit to Capernaum, we are confronted with our own stuff about the world. But the context offers us a different look at things.
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Just a little demon possession
The story of Jesus exorcising demons is challenging for the modern reader. The real question is what is Mark trying to show us?
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The Servant God
A mother-in-law’s gratitude at odds with the public spectacle. Jesus leaves town, perhaps because of his notoriety, but perhaps also because the people are more interested in him, in the wonders that he has done, in the power that he possesses. And not in what GOD is calling him to actually do. Not in what…