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The matter of faith
When a man asks Jesus for assurance of salvation, Jesus ties his desire of assurance to his wealth—a message that scares us, too.
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Breaking up with the money god
When we talk about the problem with money, we need to dig into why we can’t trust in money to solve all of our problems now.
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The Inevitable Search for Eternal Life
In a story we assume is about wealth, Jesus reveals our misconceptions about life, grace, and the human project.
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Not wealth, grace
When Jesus tells us about the problems with wealth, we get hung up on whether or not he means us. But that isn’t the point. For the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost – Proper 23B Collect Lord, we pray that your grace may always precede and follow us, that we may continually be given to good…
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Becoming Beloved
Jesus wants us to talk about money. I know you don’t want me to talk about money. And you know I don’t want to talk about money. But here we are. Just like I didn’t want to talk about divorce last week, but there it was. Jesus wants us dealing with important stuff. Jesus is saying…
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What the Kingdom doesn’t look like
Simply getting rid of our stuff isn’t the action Jesus is calling for. Not exactly. Though it is certainly much closer than “GOD wants you to be rich.” Love and inheritance Proper 23B | Mark 10:17-31 A mind-blowing teaching We have arrived in Judea. Days ago we’ve predicted the Passion and watched Jesus transfigured on…
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Getting Good with GOD
a Homily for Proper 23B Text: Mark 10:17-31 Jesus and Money Following Jesus is hard. He told the disciples so when He recruited them. He told them that they would have to leave their families and their homes and their work and they went along with it. When He showed them what it would be…