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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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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…
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Are we even alive?
a homily for Proper 27C Text: Luke 20:27-38 What are they talking about? This gospel isn’t what we take it for. The people that put together the Revised Common Lectionary have us jumping into Holy Week here. Last week’s story about Zacchaeus, the wee little man who climbed a sycamore tree is the first half of…
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Climbing Higher
a homily for Proper 26C Text: Luke 19:1-10 It so often feels that gospels about money are tricky during Stewardship Season like this. We already hate to talk about money. Bringing up economics in a homily is a tricky enough proposition during the rest of the year. It sometimes feels as if the preacher is…