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Jesus and a little boy vs. the voices of common sense
How Jesus shares the peace: John 20:19-31
The disciples are afraid, so they lock their doors. I do the same.
How Jesus shares the peace: John 20:19-31
The disciples are afraid, so they lock their doors. I do the same.
Suffering and salvation: Jeremiah 31:31-34; Psalm 51:1-12; John 12:20-33
Psalm 51 does not let any of us off the hook—not the progressives, the evangelicals, or the feel-good agnostics.
The gospel vs. self-reliance
This week the lectionary offers foundational verses of our faith. But the faith cannot live on a couple verses alone.
The beginner's Gospel (John 3:14-21)
Look, people are sinking under the waters. Here in this wilderness, people are perishing.
Consuming zeal: John 2:13-22
In the synoptic accounts of the cleansing of the temple, Jesus is being provocative. In John, he is provoked.
The beginner's Gospel (John 3:14-21)
Look, people are sinking under the waters. Here in this wilderness, people are perishing.
An embodied ideal: Jeremiah 31:7-14; John 1:(1-9), 10-18
Whether we choose to believe it or not, we human beings are embodied creatures. There have been many times throughout the history of philosophy and religion when great thinkers have tried to minimize or deny the physicality of human existence. Simple phrases such as “mind over matter” and biblical passages such as 1 Corinthians 9:27, “but I punish my body and enslave it,” have contributed to the misleading belief that we are at our best as human beings when some spiritual core that is separate from our physical nature governs our lives.