The resurrection of the light takes place while it is still dark, because Jesus is not ultimately bound even by death.
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Jesus’ crucifixion looks like a religious and political defeat, but it turns out to be the victory of a priest-king whose offering is himself and whose reign is a community of mutual care.
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“King” is not a matter of fact, it’s a decision about loyalty. Critically, it’s about *our* loyalty.
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The powers of the world keep ironically testifying to the truth that they don’t have any real power where Jesus is involved.
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Jesus’ interrogation by the high priest and Peter’s denial (John 18:12-27) turn his Good Shepherd discourse inside out and upside down.
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We often want Jesus to do things for us and ask only our worship. It’s more challenging when he chooses to be our teacher and asks us to do the same things he does.
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Resurrection reveals God’s glory in a way that just living forever doesn’t accomplish.
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Sometimes we don’t fit in a religious community because Jesus is leading us beyond it. Even if leaving looks like being kicked out.
The #NarrativeLectionary for #AshWednesday (John 10:1-18) continues the reading for #TransfigurationSunday.
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What conditions do we insist must be fulfilled before we’re willing to admit to the glory of God?
The #NarrativeLectionary for #TransfigurationSunday (John 9:1-42) only seems to be a story about #disability and #healing.
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Kind (merciful/loyal), not nice: A parent pleads for his child’s life and Jesus grumps about it like a carnival magician who just clocked out. A man waits 38 years for someone to help him be healed, and Jesus asks if he’s even trying.
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Pneumatology in the Gospel of John: Jesus doesn't need a bucket to draw living water out of Jacob’s well because he has a really long straw instead.
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Petitioning to translate “again/from above” in John 3:3 as “from the top” and the first “so” in 3:16 as “thus.”
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The temple protest in John 2:13-25 doesn’t suggest that anybody is stealing (contrast the synoptics), but Jesus still isn’t happy about it.
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The real feast of #Epiphany is a wedding buffet with an open bar.
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Jesus in John 1:35-51 knows people by names they don’t even have yet, but he can’t figure out why everyone is impressed enough to follow him around.
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My Presbyterian tradition doesn’t have much practice of testimony, probably in part because we think it means talking about ourselves. John testifies precisely by pointing away from himself. #NarrativeLectionary
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Christmas is a way of showing us what we can’t know while the light shines into the world.
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The darkness can’t apprehend the light, but the powers of darkness will receive the light by the light’s own volition. The world does not know the one through whom it came into being, but that one knows the world.
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For the third Sunday of Advent, Isaiah tells us that maybe Christmas doesn’t come from a store…
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The Advent promise is not just incarnation, but resurrection and restoration. (And as I’m sure I said four years ago, bodies coming back to life are merely a metaphor for the resurrection.)
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The #EpicLectionary aligns with the #NarrativeLectionary this week. Solomon built the Lord not so much a house as a call box. Where do we focus our attention (and where is God’s attention focused) that connects us with a God who is boundlessly everywhere?
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The litany of creation in Genesis 1 is about how to organize time. (And it suggests a great weekly liturgy of praise, if you can celebrate humanity on Friday afternoons.)
This week the #EpicLectionary lines up with the #NarrativeLectionary!
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Any interrelated group of people can function as a “body.” What makes the #church the #BodyOfChrist is the power of the #HolySpirit to disrupt the world’s power structures.
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You need an eye for irony to interpret the #Bible. The defenders of the status quo create an uproar by falsely accusing others of being disruptive while missing the way they’re actually turning the world upside down.
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#Freedom in the #Bible is not about turning prisoners into runaways so much as turning jailers into hosts. (I do wish the Bible were more explicit about what it means for enslaved girls after their exorcisms.)
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Keeping #faith in a relationship is not about how you think or about following a list of rules, but it should tangibly shape both your attention and your behavior.
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#Prayer often has to do people with asking God for help, and #God often has to do with #neighbors asking each other for help.
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To be the church (called into being by Christ’s mission) means to be sent into the places where death reigns, bearing the power of resurrection.
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The Epic Lectionary is an alternative OT sequence for the #NarrativeLectionary. Instead of racing through one story a week from Genesis to Malachi, the Epic settles in for a more in-depth read of a handful of storylines.
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The church is called to be transformed, which means we have to be willing to recognize that we don’t know all the answers.
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