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Between Lent 4 & 5 (Year A)
Several chapters ago, the leaders began conspiring to kill him. Now Jesus is confronting their theological convictions.
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Avoiding Pain
This story is less about the miracle of giving sight to the blind, but the way the leaders avoid seeing grace.
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More than a healing (Lent 4A)
When Jesus gives sight to the man born blind, faith leaders try to destroy all the good that Jesus is doing.
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A Cause for Celebrating
The story of Jesus healing a man’s blindness should be joyous. Instead, faith leaders are making everyone miserable.
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Between Lent 3 & 4 (Year A)
After the woman at the well, Jesus gets rebellious at home, drives a wedge between his followers, and takes on the leaders.
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When we are all blind
This isn’t a story of healing, but of spiritual blindness. A story about skepticism and the rhetorical knots we tie ourselves in. A story about seeing the truthLent 4A | John 9:1-41 The centerpiece of the story has to be the miracle, right? A stranger walks up, gives a man sight, and then keeps on…
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Seeing Jesus
Why do bad things happen? That isn’t the question this passage answers. Nor does it answer why we suffer, why some are blind or disabled, or why some of us are total jerks. Instead, it tells a story. A story of people willfully blind to the beauty of God. Lent 4A | John 9:1-41 The…
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Leaving the Cave: seeing, believing, and true power
a Sermon for Lent 4A Text: John 9:1-41 Plato’s Cave In Plato’s Republic, the philosopher introduces a strange scenario in which a prisoner is trapped in a cave. The prisoner knows nothing of the world as we know it. He’s stuck in one place, staring straight ahead for a long, long time. Behind him is…