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Luke 15:1-3, 11-32

Lent 4C

[…] just lost but in no danger per se (can a coin even be in danger, I mean aside from falling into the hand of shifty Wall Street bankers?). Still, Jesus is hammering home a central point, a point so vital that he tells not one story but three. As Calvin Seminary professor of New […]

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Romans 8:12-25

Proper 11A

[…] in verse 13a, if we “live according to the flesh [kata sarka], we will die [apothneskein].” Our sinful nature is, in other words, less like a friendly banker than a loan shark. It doesn’t just, to use mafioso terminology, knee cap its debtors. Our sinful nature spiritually kills us. But, Paul continues in verse […]

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Isaiah 12:2-6

Advent 3C

[…] Jesus and you’ll find God depicted as a landlord, an unjust judge, a farmer, an old woman in search of a lost coin, a waiting father, a banker.  Jesus described himself variously as bread, light, a vine, a door, a gate, a road.  Not to be outdone, the third person of the Trinity, the […]

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