The Unvarnished Jesus: A Lenten Journey
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The capacity to believe or doubt is what creates space for us be free and authentic beings, and not mere robots controlled by God.
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Sometimes the Bible is like a Rorschach test, telling us more about ourselves than about God.
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we must learn to recognize the image of God in every other person.
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Zacchaeus was really a wayward son of Abraham who needed to be sought out in love and restored to the table of fellowship.
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Lent is a time to repent, to rethink, to reimagine.
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Jesus does not directly challenge the mob impulse, but forces each person to act as an individual.
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Those of us who follow Jesus can never follow the crowd and must never act according to the mob spirit.
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Followers of Jesus are called to co-suffering love, not theological stone throwing.
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Judas wanted to be a faithful disciple—but only on his own terms.