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17 mins read|10/01/23To manipulate God with our questions is, ultimately, to try and get ourselves off the hook and/or God off the throne.
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14 mins read|07/30/23Jesus called Peter to be a fisher of men so more people would be caught up in God’s gracious love through Jesus. But Peter needs to remember he is also one who needs to be caught-up in the same grace.
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15 mins read|07/23/23When we are not running ahead of Jesus, we might be in a better position to see Jesus: Crucified and risen for sinners, among whom I am the chief.
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14 mins read|07/16/23The same Word which stepped out of eternity into created time in order to speak light and life into creation when all was void and formless, that same Word still speaks.
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17 mins read|07/09/23We cannot use Jesus to defeat our problems, but as Jesus embraces us, we discover (almost incidentally) we have been relieved of our burdens.
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12 mins read|10/16/22This parable does its surprising work of turning everything upside-down, as Christ’s Kingdom always does.
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13 mins read|10/09/22The Kingdom will be manifest when the King wills it, and rest assured, He is a good King.
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11 mins read|10/02/22Jesus cares about the daily details of ordinary bodies and creaturely comforts, just as He cares about the eternal well-being of our souls.
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11 mins read|09/25/22On the one hand, forgiving as Jesus commands us feels impossible. But on the other hand, forgiving as we have been forgiven is the most natural thing in the world
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15 mins read|07/24/22What Jesus promises is better than justice. Jesus promises grace.
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13 mins read|07/17/22This is not just a pericope about hereditary sin and actual sins, nor is it providing a pattern for prayer. It is fundamentally about God our gracious Father and His promise to hear us, answer us, and provide for us.
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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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