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Blessed by default
The damning truth of it is that so many Christians reject Jesus’s approach to blessing. It’s not a competition, but a co-op.
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Wealth is always relational
When talking about God’s blessing, we are necessarily confronted with the idea that we always seem to start talking about possessions.
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Blessings and Woes—for Epiphany 6C
In the sermon on the plain, Jesus outlines a relationship to the Kin-dom that is based, not on virtue, but on our relationship to others.
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Blessing — it’s complicated, actually
How many of us conceive of blessing is predicated on an ancient prejudice. That we are good and deserving and others aren’t.
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Two Kingdoms – The challenge at the heart of Jesus’s sermon on the plain
In the blessings and woes, Jesus challenges us to see things in a different way: to write a different ending to the story.
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Blessings and Woes
In the sermon on the plain, Jesus offers a teaching that feels opposite to our expectations – to see what we’re missing.
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back to the future
In the Sermon on the Plain (Luke 6), Jesus tells us what we hoped we’d never hear: our world is upside down and we’re being called to flip it over.