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Talking One Way and Acting Another
In today’s passage, the disciples struggled with living in a tension between inclusiveness and exclusiveness. And Jesus said to the disciples, “Do not stop him, for no one who does a deed of power in my name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me.” Preserving the power of his own group was not a priority for Jesus. If good were being done by others, their actions were to be affirmed.
September 26, 2021
God’s Values are Not Our Values
In today’s passage, Jesus offered a window to imagine how the kingdom of God on Earth should look, where the first shall be last and the last shall be first, and she or he must be servant of all. Then, Jesus showed the disciples what he meant by taking a little child in his arms.
September 19, 2021
God’s Values Are Not Our Values
In today’s passage, Jesus offered a window to imagine how the kingdom of God on Earth should look, where the first shall be last and the last shall be first, and she or he must be servant of all. Then, Jesus showed the disciples what he meant by taking a little child in his arms.
September 19, 2021
How We Misinterpret What Is Important to God
In the passage, the Pharisees, and the scribes, clothed in righteousness, came upon Jesus and his disciples in a moment of rest. For the Pharisees, the hand washing was the issue of spiritual purity and was considered an integral part of Jewish faith and identity.
August 29, 2021
A Lit Match for a Pile of Wet Sticks
In today’s passage, Jesus’s visitation of his hometown was much different from visiting other places. Jesus was their hometown boy, so they all filed in to hear him, smiling and nudging each other before Jesus even got started, at least until they heard what Jesus had to say.
August 22, 2021
Stop Seeking a Scapegoat Out There
In today’s passage, the Pharisees had been following their rules a very long time—both the written Torah, given to them directly by Moses, and the oral Torah, developed by faithful rabbis over hundreds of years. They were lay people, not priests, but they adopted priestly standards for themselves.
August 8, 2021
A Real Inconvenient Truth
What Jesus, in today’s passage, tells us about is the divisions that occur between parents and children, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives when Jesus walks into our lives. In short, a whole house full of slamming doors and a dinner table is empty—all because of Jesus.
August 1, 2021
Looking For a False God Inside of Us
In the passage, the king erected a huge golden statue in Babylon - nine feet wide and ninety feet high. When the band began to play for the ceremonial dedication, everyone who heard it fell on their faces, except Daniel’s three friends—Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
June 27, 2021