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Unbind Him and Let Him Go — for Lent 5A
In the raising of Lazarus, Jesus defies the expectations of him and opens the people to see the situation in a completely new way.
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See — on wholeness and ability
Part of the way many people of faith talk about healing denies the humanity of the person. Jesus is about equity and inclusion.
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Our own isolation— from COVID and one another
This is a section I cut out of this week’s sermon comparing the two main responses to COVID with what Jesus does in healing the lepers.
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Radiate Love
The grace Jesus offers in these healing stories is a grace of transformation, of change, of the true hope of learning to be new.
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Our own healing hands
The most difficult part of this week’s gospel isn’t the healings Jesus makes possible so much as what the healings mean for us.
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Healed —and the willingness to be changed
When we long to be healed, praying for God to heal us of what ails us, do we dare acknowledge that we are supposed to change?
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Only the Beginning
Moving from the call stories to Jesus’s miraculous ministry might leave us with the wrong impression that this is normal.
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Working Together
Jesus looks at all of the people and he sees a whole—all of the people together—who need help and people to help.