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Repent — why we keep having to remember what it means
The word and the concept get us all twisted. We think we’ve got it. Or that the church does. And then we prove we don’t.
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Mercy and the power of unearned grace
The gift of mercy is unearned grace. But it is also way more than that. It exists outside the earned/unearned continuum.
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The Inevitable Search for Eternal Life
In a story we assume is about wealth, Jesus reveals our misconceptions about life, grace, and the human project.
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Not wealth, grace
When Jesus tells us about the problems with wealth, we get hung up on whether or not he means us. But that isn’t the point. For the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost – Proper 23B Collect Lord, we pray that your grace may always precede and follow us, that we may continually be given to good…
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courage
Gracefully living in the now. Peter shows courage in naming Jesus Messiah. He also shows courage in standing up to Jesus in the moment. Jesus shows courage in confronting that temptation to avoid the challenge ahead of them. Following Jesus takes courage. It often seems like we encourage one another to display courage to benefit…
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Love and the Vine
In comparing himself to the vine, Jesus gives us an opportunity to see the communal nature of love.
