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Love fuels sacrifice
As the good shepherd, Jesus opens us to the idea that sacrifice, his sacrifice, is central to understanding love. Hearing the Good Shepherd within the chaosEaster 4B | John 10:11-18 I struggle with the shepherd image. Because I have a hard time relating to it. And I don’t know sheep. I don’t know what it’s…
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The Sacrifice of the Good Shepherd
For SundayEaster 4B Collect O God, whose Son Jesus is the good shepherd of your people: Grant that when we hear his voice we may know him who calls us each by name, and follow where he leads; who, with you and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.…
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Learning to Love
While John 3:16 has become iconic, it has also become a distraction from the message Jesus shares about the love of God.
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Too afraid to say it
Jesus’s exchange with Peter at the end of John is the most human, vulnerable moment in the gospels. And it is essential for us.
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God loves you anyway
Jesus talking about love in the midst of crisis is always relevant. Jesus saying each other is the way to know God is even more so.
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Lead with Love
We want Jesus to teach us how to love like it takes a methodology or more faith than we have. Instead, Jesus shows how that misses the point. Jesus and the teaching of uncommon forgivenessProper 22CLuke 17:1-10 We jump into the story with the apostles shouting “Increase our faith!” It makes it all sound random.…
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No Excuse Not to Love
We make lots of excuses not to love. They’re all trash. Every single one. Because Christians have no excuses to avoid loving other people.
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Bad Economics
Jesus keeps teaching us about the limits of transactional thinking — and the life-giving beauty of sacrifice in his way of love.