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| Summary: Jesus asked a crowd, “What have you come out to see?” He asks us the same question. Our reflective response can help satisfy our spiritual hunger. |
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| Summary: John the Baptist’s questions of Jesus could very well be our questions: What did you come here to see? What do you want to hear? What are you looking for? Have you found it? We do well to consider Jesus’ answer to John. |
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| Summary: The disciples of John the Baptist come to Jesus wanting to know if he is the Messiah. “Are you the one, or should we look for another?” they ask. Jesus response is not what they expect to hear.
Many of us ask the same question today. Is Jesus the Son of God? How can we know? Jesus answer to the followers of John the Baptist also applies to us today.
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| Summary: When we are disappointed by the tenacity of evil, we can trust that God continues to heal and renew. |
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| Summary: John the Baptist’s faith wasn’t perfect — and neither is ours. Faith does not mean simply believing that certain things are true, but most importantly, it means placing our ultimate trust in God. And if doubts about God’s trustworthiness arise, the good news of what God has done in Christ is the best remedy. |
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| Summary: Jesus’ response to John’s question affirms his own identity, John’s identity and ours. |
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| Summary: In wilderness experiences, we may find prophets who help us learn who we are and whose we are.
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| Summary: It’s damned if you and damned if you don’t. That’s our Lord’s lament for today. God had sent John the Baptizer to prepare the way for Jesus. He preached a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. John came, singing a funeral dirge: “Die to yourself. It’s in the water where you find life to live!” |
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| Summary: We complicate life by giving eternal importance to things that don’t matter a week from now. |
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| Summary: This short narrative contains some of the elements of good worship. Jesus offers a prayer that thanks God for revealing the mystery of Jesus’ ministry, teaches about the relationship between the Father and the Son and invites us to accept Jesus’ yoke for our burdens. |
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| Summary: In this chapter - a snapshot of moments in Jesus’ later ministry - Jesus confronts doubt and weariness from a people oppressed by guilt, hard work, political occupation - name it! He offers a prescription for doubt and weariness from an unexpected place.
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| Summary: Even though Jesus teaches us that we can never fully understand God, we can use our intellects to gain a deeper perspective on what God reveals. All people, despite education or sophistication, can find rest for their souls in Jesus. |
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| Summary: We miss out on the wonders of life that Jesus Christ offers because we aren’t childlike enough to take him at his word. We complicate life by giving eternal importance to things that don’t matter a week from now. |
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| Summary: One reason the yoke Jesus offers is light is that he shares it and bears it with us. As the people of God, let us remain yoked together in love and service. |
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| Summary: Jesus challenges us, this Independence Day weekend, to wonder about how free we are. Despite the national freedoms that we celebrate, he reminds us that we are often bound by commitments and dysfunctions that keep us from responding to him. Do we have the freedom and daring to reach for the good yoke that he holds out to us? |
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| Summary: Most of the time we leave out of Jesus’ invitation the best part of all: when our burden is lifted, we will be able to bear God’s yoke. |
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| Summary: At the end of Matthew 11, Jesus offers the words of comfort to people in desperate circumstances faced with near-impossible choices. To understand fully and to appropriate spiritually these words, we must learn to recognize ourselves as infants, helpless and unable to make sense of all that life throws at us and to see him, not as Superman or Santa Claus, but as the one who offers himself in the midst of crisis and pain. |
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