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Jesus commands the remnant of his community to make disciples everywhere, baptizing in the name of the triune God those whom they invite to join God’s mission of love and justice....
Read MoreThe risen Jesus promised the members of his community that he would be with them always. He would be with them when their mission met resistance. They would know his pres-...
Read MorePaul offers advice to the Christians at Corinth and hints of a troubled past relationship between him and the church. Though he urges the community to love the member of the...
Read MoreThe psalmist and the writer of the Creation account in Gene- sis put humankind at the pinnacle of Creation, and biblical translations use words like dominion, rule, and subdue to describe...
Read MoreCotton elds and woods surround the retreat house I visit in Scott, Georgia. Few houses line the road that leads to the Green Bough House of Prayer. I see a horse...
Read MoreGenesis tells us that creating the world took work. Separat- ing light from darkness and water from dry land required divine effort. Through labor born of God’s creative imagination and love,...
Read MoreAccording to this Creation account, the created order, includ- ing human existence, begins in darkness when “a wind from God” sweeps over the face of the waters. Though God separates light...
Read MorePentecost celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit to the followers of Jesus some fifty days after his death on the cross. (The word Pentecost means “fifty” in Greek and is...
Read MoreWhat a week this has been—the highs of Pentecost with the appearance of Jesus to the disciples after the devastation of his loss, the coming of the Holy Spirit into their...
Read MoreThis first-day-of-the-week meeting is how the Gospel of John describes the Great Commission. He wraps it in the risen Jesus’ first appearance to the disciples and makes it into a simple,...
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