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Keeping the point the point
We have a tendency to focus on the negative. Thinking it’s what we’re supposed to do. It’s actually a distraction.
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Addressing the false narrative of head versus heart
Jesus gives us a parable that compels us in ways that make us feel and think. What we choose to do with that is telling.
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Loving the best way we can
The greatest challenge with being good is often that we don’t know what to do with our sense of evil; and when that is us.
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wading into the weeds
Jesus’s parable of the weeds among the wheat challenges us to see evil in the desire to pluck weeds when we know it’ll kill the wheat.