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| Summary: In his high priestly prayer in John 17, Jesus prayed that his followers may “be one.” But what does that really mean? Are Christians all supposed to belong to the same denomination? Should our worship style be the same from church to church? Or is Jesus praying for something richer and deeper?
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| Summary: At the end of his life, Jesus prays for his disciples, for the people he was sent to teach and those with whom he has a relationship, but not for the world in general. This statement may seem strange. Or, it could be a paradigm shift in how we see and treat the people we encounter daily. People are beautiful, divinely created individuals, and not the sum of their interactions with the world. |
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| Summary: Before he died, Jesus’ final thoughts were about us. He prayed that we might avoid the sin of separation and instead be united by our faith in God. |
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| Summary: If we ever lose God’s Glory, we will have lost everything, for Glory is what prevents life from being an endless blur of meaninglessness or hopelessness. God’s Glory is what lifts us out of the depths of despair and takes us to the heights of appreciation. God’s Glory reassures us that God is good and that his mercy is everlasting. Glory reminds us that God’s love comes to us fresh each day like the rising of the sun. And Glory is God’s love that blesses us with a benediction like the blaze of sunset when we come to the end of our life’s day. |
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| Summary: On the night before Jesus was crucified, he prayed for his disciples, who would be facing a difficult road ahead. In our own lives, we face difficulties that cause us to wonder if we will make it. How can Jesus’ words to the disciples bring strength, hope and confidence to us today? |
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| Summary: Easter is a message for the whole world. |
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| Summary: Most of us who follow Jesus nonetheless feel the tug of the world, calling us to make its values, not God’s, the place on which we stand. But when we work at the spiritual disciplines and invite Christ into the very center of our lives, our predominant experience is that of joy, peace, spiritual power and a sense of sufficiency. |
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| Summary: In Jesus’ “last will and testament” he spoke of what had been done, what was left to do and what he came to do. He has left much of what is still to be done to us. This is our inheritance and our treasure. But it is also ours to do. This inheritance is a life work, a grand purpose. We are set aside to tell the world the story of Jesus and his gift. |
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| Summary: In John 17, Jesus prays for his disciples. He asks God to protect and sanctify them as they engage the world in a daring mission to demonstrate God’s love to a world that has not yet experienced it. He prays the same for us. |
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| Summary: Jesus’s final act is to pray for his friends and disciples. We are invited to the kind of intimate relationship Jesus has with God, not as eavesdroppers, but as active participants in a lifestyle of divine love. |
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| Summary: The Christian community is to be in unity like the Father and the Son and the Spirit. The key to that unity is love — the love that is God, that God shows for us and that we are to have for one another. For the church to be a loving community is a way of reaching out to the world. The church, imperfect in its love, is still under the cross as it lives in the hope of resurrection. |
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| Summary: The first-century faithful were diverse religiously, ethnically and culturally, but they found unity believing in a suffering Messiah through whom God dwelt in their midst, who on their behalf brought that suffering home to God. Our unity is also found in the suffering Messiah, whom we share with all branches of our faith. |
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| Summary: If we believe that possibilities are limited and that boundaries are set, then praying for the impossible makes no sense. But if we believe in God’s power, love and goodness, then our prayer may be cooperation with his will. It may even be that our prayer, which is a new element in the situation, will be part of the means by which God’s will is done. |
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