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Lent 4B: Maintenance Needed

Nicodemus and road maintenance–what’s the connection? Joy J. Moore reflects on Jesus’ famous words in [...]

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Seeing Our Neighbors

When I was in college, I studied abroad in a country where social and economic disparities were [...]

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Less Doing, More Being

When I teach groups about the Gospels I usually highlight what distinguishes each of them. Part of [...]

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Staggering Love

Some of my favorite parts of Paul’s writings are the places where he admits just how little [...]

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Rethinking Love

This week’s texts are all about love. But preaching about love can be extremely challenging in an [...]

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Love among the Ruins

The story goes that Mark Twain was asked if he believed in infant baptism. “Believe in it?” [...]

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Real Love

Love is hard. So very hard. If you don’t think so, just look at what the Revised [...]

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‘Do You Love Me?’

Right on the heels of Thomas, we have the story of Peter, another character in [...]

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Loved Into Future

I wonder if in this moment, when Jesus is being loved with a grace upon grace kind [...]

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Simple Rules

There are many ways to describe and define the Bible. From assertions that are mostly faith-based, such [...]