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Monthly Archive for February, 2014

Understanding Jesus: Come To Me and Drink John 7: 37-52, NRSV Reflections We can’t be human without God. That’s what Christians believe. We believe that this human life is a great gift, that every part of it is designed by God and therefore means something, that every part of it is blessed by God and […]

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Understanding Jesus: Sustenance for our Soul John 6: 35-59, NRSV Reflections We never seem to be satisfied with what we possess or achieve; we are restless and crave what is novel. As Plato puts it, we are like leaky vessels. It is as though we were containers into which we keep pouring things, but we […]

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Trusting Jesus: The Development of Faith John 4:46-54, NRSV Reflections The setting in which this is happening to this man is a setting of suffering. The reason this man is willing to believe and able to believe and moving toward Jesus is because tremendous suffering has come into his life. What would possess a man […]

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Realizing the Life of Jesus Genesis 1:26-27, NRSV Reflections If we fail to believe that Jesus was like us in every way, tempted as a healthy male with a body that worked, we readily forget the wonder of his present humanity: that his choice to be God the Son this way was a permanent choice […]

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Understanding Jesus: Meeting Nicodemus at Night John 3:1-21, NRSV Reflections One night, a [Pharisee] came to Jesus and he wanted to know what he could do to be saved. Jesus didn’t get bogged down in the kind of isolated approach of what he shouldn’t do. Jesus didn’t say, “Now Nicodemus, you must stop lying.” He […]

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