Resurrection
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As people of the resurrection, we can both love the concept and also refuse to accept that it has anything to do with our lives.
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Moving from Pentecost to Trinity Sunday means, once again, switching gospels. To one with some valuable context.
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The ashes we use in Lent, to remember our place, are not generic. It isn’t proverbial. It is about our life and death.
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The famous question from the Sadducees to Jesus about the resurrection is particularly haunting to modern Christians.
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Notice that we don’t say Jesus rose from the dead. The resurrection is not the work of Jesus. It is the work of God in Jesus.
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The thing about faith is that we don’t just want to be better. We want to want to be better. And that is where the magic is.