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Maybe we’d rather be sinking
This week, we’re dealing with fear, desire, faith, and hope. And strangely, it seems, we’d rather go with the fear over everything else.
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The Transfiguration
The Transfiguration is one of the most impressive, confusing, and distracting stories about Jesus in Scripture.
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Gathering Desires
Abundance and accumulation—when we deal with the desires to have something (even the Kingdom), the limit remains us.
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Loving the best way we can
The greatest challenge with being good is often that we don’t know what to do with our sense of evil; and when that is us.
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Becoming Healthier Soil
The challenge of discipleship is not only becoming better or less bad. It is becoming self-aware enough to do either.
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In the humility of turbulent moments
Who do we take Jesus for? Messiah. Lord. Our titles speak to our relationship. But what do we expect for him?
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There is more here than welcome
As we read about Jesus teaching about welcome, we might think it starts here, with this, and not from our being unwelcome.
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Dividing is an active verb
When we read about Jesus and division, we are often prone to justify our own actions rather than engage with his point.