Nicodemus and Redeeming GraceLent 2A | John 3:1-17 How does he get there? In the big city, at night, visiting the traveling rabbi with a small host of disciples. One who just showed up to the Temple earlier that week and made a great scene; whose signs of wonder at the Passover …
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A Word: To Be Free
We Must Give Up On ViolenceAdvent 2A | Isaiah 11: 1-10, Matthew 3:1-12 "A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse,and a branch shall grow out of his roots." It is a promise. That the project isn’t done. We aren’t finished, over, dead. There is yet life in that old stump. A shoot, …
A Word: No Easy Faith
Jesus offers Nicodemus a new way of seeing the world and a new life. Our attempts to make new life easy strip it of its true substance. Jesus’s gospel of redemptionLent 4B | John 3:14-21 This morning, we read from the gospel of John. Chapter 3, verses 14 through 21. And this …
