Our culture's imagination is filled with apocalyptic images of doom and destruction. Apocalyptic literature, however, is intended to stoke hope in the emergence of a new thing.
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We tend to imagine God’s work in the world as a “shock-and-awe” power. The widow shows us more the “God of Small Things.”
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Jesus says the commandment to love God with everything you’ve got, and to love your neighbor as yourself is important than any other law or religious ordinance. It would be a relief if it weren’t actually impossible in practice.
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We tend to think of spirituality like fast food—we order something, we get it, and then we’re better people. The Jesus Way is different—it’s more slow food. A lifelong path of being healed from the inside out.
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One of the biggest obstacles people can have to church, faith, God, are the behavior of Christians and their portrayal of God.
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Jesus knows the things that, below the surface, gnaw at our souls, the things that enslave us. In this case it’s money.
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Jesus is pretty hardcore when it comes to divorce. But he's also pretty hardcore when it comes to the joy and blessing of marriage.
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Harsh words from Jesus this week, including images of dismemberment and everlasting fire. But these are intended to underline a sense of spiritual urgency.
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We see greatness as something achieved, and something to be held over others. Jesus says that greatness is giving all that away in loving service to others.
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Following Jesus is cross-shaped: it means a willingness to give up everything to inherit the only thing that matters.
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