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The Tree of Hate
Here we are again, friends. Another shooting at another holy place. Another person with an agenda of some sort, trying to prove a point. And then people die.
This time it was about white supremacy… but white supremacy isn’t the basis of anything. It’s just a branch on the tree of Hating Our Neighbor.
Read MoreThe Temptation of Jesus… and You.
Jesus is tempted in three different ways… or perhaps really just the one way. And yet he wanted something different. In our own lives, we can use new things and old things as temptations… distractions… from being present and kind to ourselves and others in our lives.
Read MoreWhy We Give Things Up in Lent
Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also…
In Lent you can pick up a practice just as well as you give one up. The point is that we can learn something about ourselves that we didn’t know before, and that can help our relationship with the Living God.
Read MoreLiving in the Now
Sometimes we want to live in the past. There are some beautiful times, after all, that we’ve had back then. And maybe we think all of our best times are, in fact, in our past. But the lesson of the Transfiguration is that no matter how amazing our life has been just a moment ago, we must continue to live in the present, for it is in the present that God has plans for us to do and be in the world.
Read MoreNeighbors Can Be Annoying
This is why it’s hard to be an active Christian, not a hypocritical one.
Read MoreLoving God More Than Anything
So, it’s easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven, huh? What did Jesus mean by that? Was he talking about all rich people? All people over a certain income? Or was he trying to make a different kind of point all together?
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