And how Jesus challenges expectationsProper 16B | John 6:56-69 Reading this gospel passage this morning—it offers us kind of a gloomy, how’d-we-get-here vibe. Doesn’t it sound like a low point? When the mission doesn’t just seem hard, but kind of unpopular. Like the path they’re on can’t …
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A Word: Inseparable
The strange beauty of human connectionEaster 5B | John 15:1-8 Vines, growth, God, participation, pruning, fire, glorified, become my disciples. Jesus offers an image from the natural world to speak of a relationship that transcends nature. Which means our vision of the image must transcend …
A Word: Actual Love
The dark parable Jesus tells challenges us, not to learn what to do, but to recall and do what we've already learned from him. he work we already know to doProper 23A | Matthew 22:1-14, Exodus 32:1-14 Jesus is at the Temple in Jerusalem. He had only, the day before, entered …