prophet
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Soft — and the Comfort of the System
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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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Is Jerusalem the only place a prophet isn’t safe?
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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 Not Be Righteous
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As followers of Jesus, we are called into discipleship. But that doesn’t mean being more righteous than our neighbors but merely generous. Proper 8A | Matthew 10:40-42 This short gospel reading doesn’t seem like much. But if you’ve been following along the last few weeks, then you know it is anything but simple. Not even…
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Yet
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2 min read
Yet (Day 2 of A Simple Lent) “yet I will rejoice in the LORD” One of the challenges of life is that we need to take it seriously and at the same time not be overwhelmed with depression. Much of my youth was spent reading Kurt Vonnegut novels. I would read them so quickly that…