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Between Easter 2 + 3 (Year A)
With the move to the third week of Easter, we switch to Luke’s gospel. To find ourselves focused in a different direction.
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Seeing or feeling is believing?
Dealing with the Thomas resurrection story means wading past our assumptions about doubt. And about belief.
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Good Like Peter
Peter, the Beloved Disciple, and why the way we judge ourselves keeps us from seeing how much we are truly loved.
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So…Peter’s Naked?
It is so weird that Peter is naked and then clothes himself and then jumps in the water. How can we not talk about it?
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Finding Grounded
The pandemic disrupts our sense of normal. Jesus invites us to join in the transformation because normal isn’t the point.
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A Paranormal Resurrection
For SundayEaster 3B Collect O God, whose blessed Son made himself known to his disciples in the breaking of bread: Open the eyes of our faith, that we may behold him in all his redeeming work; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.…
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Definitely, Peter
What Jesus told them to do was follow him. Instead, 7 disciples went to the beach.
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Being Present
While Easter stories rely on the absence of Jesus in the empty tomb, they also establish the presence of Jesus with the apostles to be the presence of Christ for each other. Easter and the returning presence of Jesus Easter 3B | Luke 24:36b-48 When someone tells me they like the prequels to Star Wars,…