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13 mins read|07/10/22But it is not always helpful to create tidy categories of good and bad and to say, “Stop being ‘a Martha’ and do a better job of being ‘a Mary.’” That is a dangerous sermon to preach. In doing so, we can fall into the very thing we see Martha doing.
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13 mins read|07/03/22The parable of the Good Samaritan is both a call to faith in Jesus and a call to love our neighbor.
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13 mins read|06/26/22Despite the very real obstacles and difficulties, this entire scene is marked by God’s gracious work.
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12 mins read|04/17/22On every page, in every theme, in every major character and every major plot twist, we are invited to see God’s unfolding work to make all things new and whole in Jesus.
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13 mins read|04/10/22Jesus died for the people who put Him to death. Jesus rose for the people whose minds rejected the idea of a resurrection.
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12 mins read|04/03/22The image on Palm Sunday is about something so primordial, so powerful and ancient, so deep, that it would shatter any kind of limits. It would break through any attempt to restrain it.
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13 mins read|03/26/22This living Word breaks and crushes. It comes down as crushing judgment on those who reject the Son. But it promises to heal and restore all those who fall on the Son broken, contrite, and in faith.
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13 mins read|01/23/22The same Christ we proclaim to the people in our pews is the same Christ who is for those not in our pews.
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12 mins read|01/16/22During this season of Epiphany, we experience more than the revelation of who Jesus is. We also celebrate how Jesus makes God fully known.
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12 mins read|01/09/22Jesus turning water into wine calls for you to believe: To believe in Him.
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12 mins read|01/02/22Not only does God reveal the identity of Jesus in this season through what we see and hear Jesus doing and saying, but God also reveals His gracious will through Jesus despite what we see and hear.
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15 mins read|12/25/21The episode of the boy Jesus in the Temple raises questions. It raised questions for Mary (and Joseph) and it raises questions for us.
