Today, let us put an end to hardness of heart and seek to open our hearts to compassion and love.
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God’s covenantal love that he has made with us is eternal, will never break
In answer to the tortuous complaints, criticisms and judgement of the Pharisees, Jesus the Christ puts it all into context again — covenantal love.
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Lord, we apologize for those who never heard him, who were mired in their ugly and sinful past and refused to go forward to a better future, who participated in and perfected the art of hatred and racism, who were capable of and actually committed murder actually or complicity.
Continue readingA vibrant relationship with God requires waiting
These aren’t just Advent themes, but everyday themes of the spiritual life.
Continue readingGod, present in our humanity, invites us into his divinity
No wonder this word, in the person of the Christ, comes particularly to sinners and those in need, and not the righteous.
Continue readingIn the scriptures, God shows what being open to him can do
The Christ goes for broke — he takes care of business; he teaches and peers into the hearts of his “enemies” and shows them what faith can do.
Continue readingThe word is so amazing when we hear God speak an ‘if’ to us.
How many “ifs” will open possibilities and doors and chances to grow, live, love, fin, discover, be transformed, and not harden, but find the voice of God giving and living within us and through us.
Continue readingGod ‘walks in our shoes’ to understand us up close
He had to share everything — our blood, our flesh, our death. The redeeming of it all was again how he shared it, how he embraced it, how he renewed it.
Continue readingJesus — the classic scapegoat — ‘carried the sins of all’
As they dumped everything upon him through their rejection, jealousy, condemnation, and the passion and death on the cross — as they scapegoated the Holy One — he showed how to be the scapegoat of love.
Continue readingOur faith is so present; it is the now, where we are at
What if someone were to write the story of our lives, beginning with right now — “in medias res”?
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