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Between — The Big Sermon and the Transfiguration
A lot happens before the Transfiguration. But something right before it colors how we might understand it.
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Assuming what Jesus says
It seems that we read this passage for the words Jesus says and then miss the message he conveys with them.
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“You have heard it said…”
Jesus’s teaching in the Sermon on the Mount continues with a new look at old material. A method both familiar and new.
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In My Backyard
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus pushes us to examine our place and our sense of community in an atomized and dysfunctional world.
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Reconsider
For the last month or so we’ve been talking about what goes into a new beginning. With baptism, we’re invited to begin again. And with it, we’re invited into following Christ, face adversity, respond, and claim our purpose. Today, we focus on one of the least appreciated parts of our journey. Where we wrestle with…
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To Break Free From Ignorance and Pain
a Sermon for Epiphany 6A Text: Matthew 5:21-37 A most unreasonable request We’re following Jesus up the side of a mountain and we’re hearing His most famous sermon. A sermon that begins with blessings: (blessed are the poor in spirit, those who mourn, the meek…). A sermon that highlights all the wondrous things that GOD…