We will never fully understand it, and yet we touch the mystery countless times every day in prayer, allowing this mystery to guide and to change and to love us!
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The multiple things that can transform us with the word of Jesus
There is no harm in listening. There is no harm in hearing. And maybe, just maybe, we will learn.
And if not, if not convinced, what did we lose? A few minutes?
But what we might gain is even more valuable.
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Lives and love that will last
He cursed the barren tree and he upturned the godless prayer space strewn with tables of commerce that had become a marketplace.
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Choose last, and experience a little bit of eternal life right now
We just have to do our part and do it to the best of our ability and with all of our heart. Then, no doubt, we will easily — time and time again — choose last and become first.
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Behold others as brothers and sisters in Christ, and behold all in love
We return to walk with and in and through and because of our faith and our love of the Christ.
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Pulling us into, introducing us to these big events
And we see the great redemptive love poured out from the cross as this sin-and-grace dance is played and portrayed a thousand times and more in the word of God.
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We are all invited into the journey of the cross
And, no doubt — year after year, trial after trial, sorrow after sorrow, challenge after challenge — the journey just gets better and deeper, and it ironically and wonderfully produces more love.
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The awesomeness of God is the beginning of wisdom
All we can do is to approach it with humility and a huge dose of respect — that we might see and hear with wisdom so that we might find the almighty and everlasting one who is all holiness and the giver of all good gifts.
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Jesus captures within his teaching totality of love, beyond what ‘you have heard’
His reason is simple: that is what God does: “he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust.”
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Christ’s transfiguration was their transformation — and it is ours
We are called to listen to him, for it is in that listening that we will be led along the same pathways of faith; and our hopes, too, will be realized in Christ.
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