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Blessing is an Invitation to Build Something Better
In the Beatitudes, we find ourselves pushing against our own priorities, against the priorities the world pushes upon us, to divide us, despise us.
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Assuming what Jesus says
It seems that we read this passage for the words Jesus says and then miss the message he conveys with them.
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“You have heard it said…”
Jesus’s teaching in the Sermon on the Mount continues with a new look at old material. A method both familiar and new.
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Fulfilling the Law
Getting at what Jesus is speaking to requires we remember the Beatitudes. And placing that above our own logic.
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For ever, for ever, for ever, for ever, they shall see God.
Teresa’s story reminds us of the challenge of power. And how Jesus invites us to flip it over. To seek righteousness.
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In My Backyard
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus pushes us to examine our place and our sense of community in an atomized and dysfunctional world.
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Between — The Big Crowds and the Big Sermon
We have a way of mistaking the fame of Jesus in the gospels for something mundane. Rather than what it is: a reflection of the mission.
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Ashes and Hearts – On Fire
Most of what we talk about on Ash Wednesday is found in the small part of the Sermon on the Mount we get in the lectionary (Matthew 6:1-6,16-21). The rest of the chapter reveals it means so much more. Ash Wednesday is way more than ashes – it’s the work of forgiveness Ash Wednesday | …