What should we care about?Lent 5C | John 12:1-8 That has to be the best opening line for any gospel proclamation: Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. It’s just dropped in there like it’s no big deal. The …
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A Word: Graceful
The unity that lives behind our broken visionLent 4C | Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 Jesus tells this incredible parable in response to the Pharisees who scoff at his choice of dining companions. Ritual purity prevents the devout from dining with tax collectors and sinners, yes, but so does custom and …
A Word: Without Sin
the implicit bias that clouds our judgmentLent 3C | Luke 13:1-9 “At that very time there were some present…” We’re starting today in the middle of a conversation, a big teach-in with Jesus. And what we don’t hear as we dive into this moment is what Jesus was teaching when some …