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This is the Way — Jesus and the rejection of supremacy
Jesus’s Temptation in the Wilderness isn’t just a story of the power of evil or Jesus’s personal experience of it, but the very corruptive nature of power.
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The Tempting Away From God — for Lent 1A
The temptation in the wilderness isn’t a mere trick or a promise of true power, but a false invitation to abandon the very love of God.
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A Beautiful Gift — Of Tending Sheep and Watching Stars
In revealing the incarnation to shepherds and star watchers, we are given the sharp contrast of God’s love and joy against the madness of kings.
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Soft — and the Comfort of the System
Jesus challenges the people’s expectations of power and our ways of confronting it. That our expectations don’t match our reality.
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The seductive power of wealth is a rejection of faith
The parable of the rich man and Lazarus is told to people mocking Jesus for inviting them to love God more than they love mammon.
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We need a genuine alternative to social media
Social media isn’t just making us miserable, it is stealing from us. It is long past time we tried to do something about it.
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A more authentic rule — Jesus and the revolution of love
In Jesus’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem we witness an alternative to earthly power — a different vision of divine power in trust and love.
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The most difficult Sunday to preach
Figuring out how to deal with Palm and Passion Sunday is tricky. And Christian tradition hasn’t made any of it any easier, or better.