As we return to Mark for Palm/Passion Sunday, it is striking that even Mark has slowed down the action a bit, filling in details about
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This Week’s Message
At this stage of our Lenten journey, we encounter the fruit and the charge that comes with losing our life to find it in God—service.
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This Week’s Message
This week, we continue our mid-Lent excursion into the Gospel of John. If God didn’t send Jesus to condemn the world, then we aren’t called
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This Week’s Message
If you think that this week’s text feels a bit misplaced, you’re not wrong. In Matthew, Mark, and Luke, Jesus flips tables in the Temple
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This Week’s Message
If Ash Wednesday and the First Sunday in Lent set us off on our Lenten journey, this week we find out just what this journey
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This Week’s Message
This week, in the space of seven verses, we go from hearing God’s voice at Jesus’ baptism to the wilderness where Jesus is tempted by
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This Week’s Message
We end this series by focusing on a feature of our life with God that is critical to sustaining us along the way: paying attention.
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This Week’s Message
Let’s take a moment to look back on our journey through this series. We returned to the baptismal waters where we encountered Jesus, who entered
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This Week’s Message
This is a week of call-and-response. Jesus calls the disciples, and they follow. God calls Jonah—again—and Jonah finally concedes. There is persistence to the call,
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This Week’s Message
As we enter fully into Ordinary Time this week, the calendar reminds us that there is nothing ordinary about becoming the people of God. On
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This Week’s Message
Of the four Sundays in Advent, Advent 3 is perhaps the one most rife with traditions in many congregations. Gaudete Sunday gets its name from
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This Week’s Message
I don’t think “peace and quiet” is what Isaiah meant when he conveyed God’s message, “Comfort, O comfort my people…” Or, more specifically, I don’t
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This Week’s Message
It’s here! The season of waiting we’ve all been waiting for is here! Too much? Probably. But nonetheless, this first Sunday of Advent comes with
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This Week’s Message
If the Sunday before Thanksgiving invited us to look at the community and the family that surrounds us, this Sunday encourages us to look up
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This Week’s Message
This week we turn to that familiar passage from Philippians: “Rejoice in the Lord always; again, I will say, Rejoice” (Philippians 4:4). Here again, we
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