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5 mins read|12/16/15He has Israel right where he wants them: a body of water in front of them, their enemies behind them, and God above them, ready to save. Our Lord is always undoing us that he might redo us, killing us that he might enliven us.
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11 mins read|12/02/15We are like the spoiled children of kings who spit in the face of paupers on the street. We have been given so much, yet we treasure so little.
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12 mins read|11/30/15Although I believe my Catholic friends say more of Mary than can be biblically justified, I also believe that many of my Protestant friends say less of Mary than the Bible demands.
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6 mins read|11/27/15There has only been one baptism in the history of the world: the baptism of Jesus. “One Lord, one faith, one baptism.”
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14 mins read|11/16/15Whether she realized it or not, this Egyptian woman was at war with the Lord of Israel. Her will was pitted against His will. Her desires were battling God’s desires. Joseph was caught in the crossfire.
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10 mins read|09/30/15But in that quest for thou shalts and thou shalt nots, you’ll miss what really matters. You’ll trample the cross while racing for the tablets of stone. From the tale of Achan's theft, you’ll rob yourself of Jesus.
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11 mins read|09/24/15Good people like fist-pounding on the pulpit about the bad things that bad people do in this bad world of ours. It makes them feel better about themselves.
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10 mins read|08/28/15In Christ, we become part of the group of eight on the ark. The eight does not increase to nine or ten but swells to contain us all. God recreates us in this saving flood of baptism. We enter the new creation in Christ.
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7 mins read|08/03/15Grace is uncivilized, vulgar, rebellious. We make rules for it and it breaks them. Grace is a constant embarrassment to the prim and proper religiosity of the squeaky clean.
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12 mins read|07/14/15This golden age, recorded in this genealogy, is anything but straw. It is a treasure trove of grace, faith, hope, and love.
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9 mins read|07/08/15Jesus was not killed in Bethlehem as a baby, or in Galilee or Samaria as an adult. He couldn’t be, for it was necessary for him to die in Jerusalem, where Moriah is.
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12 mins read|07/07/15In front of us, in the past, is the hill upon which God has already defeated every foe we might face. On that bloody beam the heel of Christ crushed the head of the lying serpent.
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