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Jesus is blowing minds. He is shattering expectations. Yesterday’s reading ended with, “But I warn you—unless your righteousness is better than the righteousness of the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven!” This isn’t crazy to us because we think “Pharisee” is synonymous with “hypocrite,” but that… Read more
This was a once-in-a-lifetime kind of thing. More than that, this was a once-in-the-history-of-humanity kind of thing. The people were prepared. They fasted and prayed. They washed themselves and their clothing. With hope, caution, and anticipation, they looked up the mountain to see what God would do. Then God spoke. This mountain was Sinai. We… Read more
I don’t remember when I first heard Jesus’ words about being salt and light. I grew up in a good Lutheran church, and my family went every Sunday. I went to VBS and a church camp in the summer, and I’m sure I learned to sing “This Little Light of Mine” as a preschooler, and… Read more
Imagine you are at a table sitting across from someone. Imagine that this person is your societal opposite—someone in our culture with whom you just don’t get along. If you are optimistic, they are pessimistic. If you are health-conscious and active, they eat junk food and lie around. Whichever way you lean politically, they run… Read more
