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This Gospel is a plea on our behalf to seek out the good, a response that will bring life
Today, let us put an end to hardness of heart and seek to open our hearts to compassion and love.
Continue readingGod’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.
Continue readingLike MLK, do we answer God’s call to transform the world?
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 readingDo we appreciate the life that the Christ has won for us?
As we begin, on this second day of 2021, there has never been a more urgent need for followers of the Christ — the Holy One — to know who we are and why we are fellow disciples of the Lord.
Continue readingTo be in relationship with God means giving all to him
To be in relationship with Caesar involves giving him certain things. To be in relationship with God means giving all to him, since all comes from him and belongs to him and shall return to him!
Continue readingGod is ‘in it’ for the long run — without conditions, without limits
If indeed humans have existed on this planet for 160,000 years, God definitely has “hung around” with us, put up with a lot, loved us in spite of ourselves, and continues to grace and gift us without conditions and without limits.
Continue readingYour ‘Yes’ to Jesus is ‘Yes’ to seeing
That “yes,” however, means that we believe in his teachings, his example, his way of life, his values, his surrendering to God, his unequivocal “yes” to loving always, his preference for the poor and marginalized, his refusal to be blind followers of the law.
Continue readingJesus invites us to look beyond the extreme limit of the law
The fulfillment of the law calls us to love, to reconcile, to heal, to peacefully co-existence with our neighbor. Jesus sees the law as “calling us to be holy as God is holy.”
Continue readingWe find love and life in the eternal God
He is eternal, and so is his love. He is alive, and in him we find life.Eternity for him is best expressed in the moment, because to be with him or “lost” in him in the moment is life.
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