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These Pharisees are not good enough — for Lent 2C
As they come to warn Jesus of Herod’s intentions, Jesus sends them back with a message: he know the king’s murderous intentions.
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Is Jerusalem the only place a prophet isn’t safe?
Jesus describes Jerusalem as the city that kills its prophets, and it forces us to deal with the brutal nature of national power.
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To the glory of God
Exploring the temptation of power and the desire for control, we can see the ways we break community and our common purpose.
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We need to wrestle with the desire to control
In dealing with temptations of power, we are prone to understate what part control has in our lives, the desire to do what we want.
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The Means Are the Ends—for Lent 1C
In the temptation in the wilderness, we get to see the challenge of power — not for Jesus exactly, but for every one of us instead.
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The power we won’t acknowledge
The relationship between the pursuit of control in our lives is also the pursuit of power over others and our environment, even our faith.
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A life of service and grace—for Proper 29B
As Jesus’s conversation with Pontius Pilate unfolds, we see his bewilderment at what is going on, because kings must have power.
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Kings—a perpetual disappointment
The Bible expresses God’s constant opposition to kings and humanity’s constant desire for them anyway, regardless of the consequences.