Zacchaeus
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Between: From one tax collector to another
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7 min read
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
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7 min read
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)
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2 min read
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
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3 min read
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
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7 min read
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?
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6 min read
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…