Around seventy years ago, a psychiatrist named Murray Bowen began to articulate a theory of how emotions operate in family systems. Bowen noted, as our own experience shows, that when…
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Those who have spent a long time studying Mark bracket verses 9-20. The scholarly consensus is that Mark’s own original account ends with verse 8. At some later time—not necessarily…
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The lectionary that several denominations use—the order of Scripture readings for the year—is organized in such a way that, around this time of year each year, we hear Jesus speaking…
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“[W]hen the sabbath was over” (16:1), the women bought what they needed to finish the unfinished burial rites. They couldn’t finish! The law made them unable to finish. The traditional…
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No one gets to Jesus in just the same way. Am I going to tell Jesus, “Lord, that’s not how I’d do it”? If people bring someone to Jesus in…
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Isaiah was unsparing in pointing to the God-defying behaviors and choices all too common all around him in his day. What we mostly remember about Isaiah, I suppose, are his…
Life is everything! But what life? Jesus tells us quite a lot about living life; he tells us quite a lot about a life to come. Our way of living…
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Churches just aren’t as evangelistic as they used to be. For Presbyterians, that might not be saying much, but it still ought to cause each of us to pause a…
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I shall not be moved. This psalm doesn’t use those words, yet that’s the sense of this song of praise. If God is for us—and He is—who can successfully be…
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God created us for a purpose. There is a reason you and I are here: here on this earth, here in this church this morning. The reasons are connected. Through…
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