*“What are you carrying this morning that God doesn’t mean for you to carry?
The women left their spices at the tomb.
Peter left his guilt behind.
You can leave your burdens, too.
Because Easter isn’t just about something that happened 2,000 years ago.
It’s about what’s happening now—
when mercy replaces shame,
when fear gives way to peace,
when resurrection breaks into your life and says:
You are forgiven.
You are free.
You are loved.”*
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Jesus visits the home of Lazarus, Martha and Mary on his way to Jerusalem just days before his death. While is there, Mary pours a jar of very expensive perfume over his feet. He interprets it as an “anointing for his burial.” In Jerusalem, Jesus will be arrested and crucified— pouring his life out in love for us.
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Jesus tells a story about a family broken by resentment and selfishness, and a father who comes to reconcile his children.
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We are God’s children, and it is God’s job to protect us… but too often we refuse to listen.
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!
Like Jerusalem… we wanted to go our own way… do our own thing…Sometimes we got distracted by the shiny things…
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When we know that we belong to a loving, patient and powerful God, we can make it through the tough times, too. Scarred perhaps, but intact. Knowing that God is with us – and that God is reconciling our world, we can make it through Lent, and war, and financial crisis. We can make it through relocations, parenthood, divorces, cancer, the death of our children, difficult work, and all the other things that bedevil us and test our limits of faith and endurance. Because we belong to Jesus – into whose life and death we are baptized… we, too, can walk with courage and stamina and faithfulness and hope until that day when he takes us by the hand and leads us into the Promised Life to Come.
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Faith, facing obstacles, doesn’t give up!
Includes the stories of Bartimaeus and of Malala Yousafzai.
“When the world tells you to shrink, expand!” — Welteroth
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Jesus takes a vacation and meets a woman who challenges his prejudices and changes his vision for ministry.
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