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Confidence and Grace
It’s a weird feeling: having confidence in one’s own ability and belief in God’s grace. Especially when they meet.
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Being Good News
Being surrounded by bad news is exhausting. Trying to do good things can feel fruitless. And yet we know it is right.
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The Way Through
When we hear Jesus’s apocalyptic talk, we often shut down. Which means we avoid hearing the good news itself.
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Beyond a Temple
We hear Jesus talk about division and the destruction of the Temple with a sense of fear while he offers hope.
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Persistence as an act of resistance
We often isolate the need to persist from the experience of oppression. But it is the demand for justice that fuels it.
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Size — hope and an aspirational faith
The parable of the mustard seed is a treasured teaching we seem woefully unable to embody. At least we wish we could.
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Forward, Backward, or Now?
How we usually imagine time: linear and consistent: is fun and useful. But it also reveals existential quandaries.
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Superheroes among us
Sometimes times are tough. And for some, times are always tough. They tell us to wait for Superman. They’re wrong.