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| Summary: So many of our origin stories are not quite true. We rewrite our past to justify our status in the present. But in contrast to the origin story of the mighty Roman Empire, Jesus Christ is the real thing. Always was. Always will be. Even though Peter’s a little unclear on the details, he recognizes this. Will we? |
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| Summary: Peter’s confession of Jesus’ identity represents a point of no return for both Jesus and his disciples. Jesus challenges his followers to confess his identity and then unleashes them to serve in his mission. |
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| Summary: When Peter declared that Jesus was the Messiah, the Son of God, Jesus said that God had revealed that truth to Peter. God does indeed grant revelations to humans. God wants us to know what his plans for us are. The Bible is full of persons who received revelations of God. Jewish and Christian history have numerous stories of faithful souls who have had God’s reality and truth revealed to them.
A revelation can happen to anyone, anytime, any place.
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| Summary: Jesus asks us a question, through a question he asked his followers. Our answer to that question not only reminds us of who he is, but of who we are and, more importantly, who we ought to be, how we are to live, and where we eventually hope to go. |
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| Summary: Who is Jesus for you? The varied answers we might give have one unifying tie: If Jesus is important, then we must be responsible to him as his disciples. Jesus asked Peter this basic question, and the apostle’s response initiated a life of responsible discipleship. We have been called through baptism to a similar life. |
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| Summary: When we make a commitment to Jesus the Messiah, we are given a firm foundation in uncertain times. Saying yes to him gives us a rock on which to build our lives. |
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| Summary: The apostle Peter thought he knew what God’s Messiah was supposed to do when he finally came — rid the Holy Land of the Romans and restore Israel. It was a common understanding. But God, through Jesus, had something much broader and more significant in mind — redemption of all of creation, including you and me. |
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| Summary: When Jesus gives the keys of the kingdom to Peter, and by extension to the church, Jesus entrusts the church with the ministry of participating in the redeeming work that God has done and is doing in all creation. This promise sustains us in rough times, and encourages us when we see the fruit of our ministry.
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| Summary: Although we find joy and comfort in following Jesus, we accept the call to take up our crosses because we do not shrink back from facing the evil of the world. |
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| Summary: Our passage is about a time when Jesus showed Peter a “course correction” he needed to make. Had he not made that correction, Peter would have continued “setting his mind not on divine things but on human things.” The good news for us is that Jesus is patient and willing to help us make course corrections as we follow him.
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| Summary: The way of discipleship may not be easy. |
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| Summary: A baseball story reminds us that “taking up our cross” means trying to be like Jesus. |
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| Summary: The cross of Jesus has a hard but necessary lesson to teach us: that, although life inevitably ends in death, it is in death that eternal life has its beginning. |
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| Summary: Although we are often confused about what we think is necessary for us to live a good life, Jesus is quite clear. To live life abundantly, he calls us to give up the attachments that we think are essential and take up the truly necessary challenge of following him through suffering to eternal life. |
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| Summary: Anyone with good sense knows that they ought to look for the bottom line in the decisions they make. Jesus was profoundly committed to the bottom line ― for himself, and for us. For most of us, the problem is that we don’t necessarily recognize the bottom line when we see it. |
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| Summary: The response of Christianity to the problem of human suffering is that even pain has a place — somewhere, somehow — in God’s plan. |
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