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Between: From one tax collector to another
The lectionary goes from a parable about a tax collector to a real-life one. What’s between these stories fleshes it out.
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Getting Found
Zacchaeus wants to see! But to see, he needs to be vulnerable enough to be seen. The key is that he’s already found.
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Zacchaeus (Proper 26C)
When reading about Jesus meeting Zacchaeus, the man who climbed up the tree, chances are, we’re already invested.
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Changing Perspectives
When Jesus encounters Zacchaeus, we get a story that is more than encouragement for boldness in our own faith.
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Between: From Authentic Disciples to Confronting the Lying Liars
A look at the gaps in the lectionary. This week: the gap between Proper 26C and Proper 27C. The text: Luke 19:11-20:26. For those who may have transferred All Saints to Sunday, the story from Proper 26C is Luke 19:1-10—the one in which Zacchaeus climbs a tree. For the congregation, this is a capstone on…
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Climbing Trees
Did you climb trees as a kid? I never did. I wasn’t a climber. Maybe it was my fear of heights or insecurity about upper body strength. I’m guessing it has more to do with my being a pretty chill kid than anything else. So I didn’t climb trees. But that didn’t mean I didn’t…