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Jesus gets the last word, thank God

The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant from today’s gospel reading has never really grabbed me. Perhaps it is because the characters are a bit shady and the context rather off-putting.  Perhaps, too, because I don’t identify with anyone in the … Continue reading

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…he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it…

I like gospel stories that have Jesus in real dialogue with the disciples in which  the earnest, bright, engaged, intentional Jesus tries out yet a different way to make his point  In today’s story he is saying, “Look, I know … Continue reading

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1For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

4You who want to be justified by the law have cut yourselves off from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. Justified – made right – by the law and not grace.  Dr. Andrew Farley with whom I am just … Continue reading

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Take His WORD at His WORD

That’s what Jesus is saying in the final parable (Mt 7:22-28) of the Sermon on the Mount – which began, mind you, two chapters before and with the Beatitudes.  Take me – Jesus – son of our Creator, Abba Father, … Continue reading

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