New Testament (110)
  1. Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead. But if you pause the story...then it is not just about Jesus raising Lazarus.
  2. When the story begins in creation and ends in restoration, all the moments in between are filled with the working of God.
  3. Jesus sits by the well as a shepherd, coming to offer this woman a life-giving stream.
  4. But this is not a story of Jesus being taken many places. This is a story of Jesus remaining in one place and deepening in His love of the Spirit and the Father.
  5. This is the wonder which is present in the calling of the disciples. Not how they drop their nets to follow Jesus, but that Jesus does not need to go far to find disciples. He chooses the people He lives among.
  6. This is what makes the reading from John so frightening and yet so exciting. Notice how Jesus appears. Not in miracles, not in marvels, but in relationships.
  7. Jesus did not need to be baptized. But he did it. Why?
  8. God reveals Himself to us in Word and Sacrament but sometimes these revelations happen in unexpected ways.
  9. Jesus offer us this vision of violence not so we might be drawn into it but so we might be drawn through it to come closer to Him.
  10. No, we may not be casting out demons, but the battle continues and all of God’s people are involved in it. At baptism, we are taken from the Kingdom of Satan into the Kingdom of God.
  11. If anyone could be accused of squandering riches, it would be Jesus. The Pharisees have seen Him squander the blessings of God on tax collectors and sinners. He did it then. He does it now, for you and me.
  12. Jesus will be working in our feeble misguided efforts to reach out to the world. He governs our words and our deeds, no matter how awkward they might seem.
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