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Does God really forgive everyone? Even people orchestrate genocide?
Matthew 20.1-5; 2 Peter 3.1-9
Read more: Does God really forgive everyone? Even people orchestrate genocide?And in this context, the church is full of people who are developing an increasing level of anxiety about the status of Rome in their lives. They’re witnessing the Roman Empire get stronger and stronger, spread further and further, and they’re witnessing the rulers of that empire get more and more bananas and how they…
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And the calm will be the better
Matthew 14.22-33
Read more: And the calm will be the betterThey go out on the water, and a wild storm comes. The disciples are overwhelmed, by the storm, meanwhile, Jesus decides that rather than sleeping on the mountain when he’s done praying, he’ll just walk across the water, as one does, to join his friends on the sea. And during the fourth watch of the…
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What is God like?
Matthew 28.16–20; 2 Peter 1:16–18
Read more: What is God like?I can’t help but wonder, friends, if the reason we can’t get away from the complexity of the trinity is that we are being called into the same. We are being given the holy mystery of God, revealed in the scriptures that our forebearers have compiled out of six millenia spent triangulating who God is…
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The shadows of sent-out ones
Matthew 22.23–33; Acts 5.12–16
Read more: The shadows of sent-out onesAt Bible Study on Tuesday, I was touched by how quickly folks caught on to what’s unique about this passage: the hypothetical in this story is not just a hypothetical about resurrection. It is a hypothetical that pre-supposes a patriarchal world where a woman’s job is to bear an heir for a man—even a deceased…
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