healing story
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The transgressive in Jesus’s healing stories
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3 min read
In these two healing stories, Jesus offers information we’d rather skip over, providence we’d rather not have and cast only onto him.
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Two Healing Stories—for Proper 8B
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2 min read
This week’s gospel invites us to see two healing stories. If we take them together, what might we find? Not just healing, believing?
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Willing To Be Amazed
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8 min read
A recurring theme in the gospels is that people are astounded and amazed by Jesus. How many Christians actually are?
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Jesus learns from his own experience
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6 min read
These two healing stories aren’t just about healing. They show Jesus expanding the circle of wholeness beyond his own expectations.
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Extraordinary Power
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7 min read
In the gospel of Mark, we get a series of stories which reveal Jesus’s true power. Which far exceeds everyone’s expectations.
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Generous Mercy
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9 min read
I’m going to guess that nobody here was thinking about that parable from two weeks ago about the rich guy suffering in Hades, wanting a drink of water. Just a little something to wet his lips, they must’ve been so dry in that place of torment. He tries to get Abraham to send Lazarus over…