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No Easy Faith
Jesus offers Nicodemus a new way of seeing the world and a new life. Our attempts to make new life easy strip it of its true substance.
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Mercy. Always.
The problem with mercy is we don’t trust others with it. Which means, whether we like it or not, that we also don’t trust God with it.
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Believing Anyway
This gospel, while centering around Thomas, is mistaken for a treatise on unbelief rather than what belief looks like.
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Finding Grounded
The pandemic disrupts our sense of normal. Jesus invites us to join in the transformation because normal isn’t the point.
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The Power of Forgiveness
We usually center our attention around Thomas, faith, and doubt. But this, like others, is really a story about Jesus.
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Forgive, Again
Jesus’s teachings on forgiveness aren’t just hard because we don’t want to do it. We like doing the opposite.
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Lent
Prayer God of Hope, be with me, with us today. Inspire us, encourage us, stir us up that we might know you better. That we might love you better. That we might see you, among these friends, today. Amen. Introduction The format is simple. Some teaching, some talking, some summarizing, some homework. Discussion Describe a…
