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| Summary: Jesus started his mission by allowing John the Baptist to baptize him. As Christ’s followers, we are ordained to follow his directions and his example. If we are open to the presence of the Holy Spirit we will find the power to serve in ways we can scarcely imagine. |
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| Summary: Jesus’ initial public act of ministry in the synagogue at Capernaum called the community to realign its life and values around the announcement of the coming of God’s age of salvation. His ministry to us calls for a similar realignment from us. |
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| Summary: The way to the good news of the kingdom of God is through a difficult door, repentance. Jesus said so |
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| Summary: We need regular times of retreat and spiritual renewal. |
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| Summary: Just as Jesus healed the leper of his illness and his isolation, so the Risen Christ heals us of our alienation from God and one another. Christ then calls us to love others in the same daring way. The risen Christ will do what it takes to reach us. |
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| Summary: The beginning of each Christian life, however that takes place, is important, but that life is a continual response to God’s call. |
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| Summary: The act of baptism brings pleasure to God. |
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| Summary: We can look at Jesus in more ways than one, but the way we choose to look will have an impact on the depth of our faith and will determine how we can make the difference that he calls us to make. We might even say that the way we look at Jesus determines whether our Christianity is genuine. |
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| Summary: Righteous indignation has an important role in the Christian life. Its energy can melt the ice of indifference. But once we have acknowledged our anger, would should let compassion, not wrath, win the day. |
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| Summary: Following Jesus means recognizing his authority in our lives, and using the authority derived from him to exorcise the unclean spirits of our age. |
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| Summary: Jesus calls the first four disciples and they immediately give up everything they have to follow him. There is no process of building faith or learning discipleship. Instead, there is instant obedience. While we tend to stand in awe of the disciples’ response, we must also be awed by Jesus’ instant grace. Jesus works in our lives in the exact same way. He encounters us, accepts us immediately and summons us to follow him. |
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| Summary: John the Baptist announces a new era of God’s salvation and invites his audience to realign in light of its coming. John’s preaching creates an expectation that the age of darkness is over. |
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| Summary: While God is clearly able to do anything, he is not always willing to do everything. When we pray, “Lord, thy will be done,” we concede that, perhaps, God will not act in ways that we think best. There is never any legitimate excuse for disobedience, even experiencing the miraculous. When the Lord’s directions are clear, we must not deviate from them, no matter how attractive the detour. |
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| Summary: When we feel ourselves in the wilderness, hungering and thirsting for God, God will be there for us. And when we are feeling strong and refreshed, God calls us to move out into the world to serve others in need, all in the name of Jesus Christ. |
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| Summary: God’s love is present even in the wilderness, which can give us hope to carry on. |
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| Summary: Christ was baptized not because he was a sinner but to show his commitment to live righteously as God’s Son and to identify with those who are in need of repentance and baptism. That, of course, includes us all. |
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| Summary: John the Baptist proclaims that, in Jesus Christ, God has saved the best for last. |
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| Summary: What does the New Testament mean when it speaks of the authority that people saw in Jesus? Is this authority something that was available only to him, or is it possible that his followers might have at least a measure of it? And if so, what is the secret? |
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| Summary: This passage tells a story of God’s wrath that turns the usual stories of God’s wrath upside down. The wrath of Jesus, and the wrath of God, are aimed at those who would declare that sickness and disease are signs of God’s wrath. |
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| Summary: Jesus resists the temptation to build a huge following using miracles and healings as the draw. He stays focused on his mission. |
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| Summary: The Christmas message without distortion is “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news.” |
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| Summary: Baptism has both short-term and long-term benefits for believers, even today. |
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| Summary: The alarm has gone off! The kingdom of God is near, in the sense of being close by and in the sense of being on the way. There may be a cost to count, but the kingdom of God trumps the kingdoms of this world, whether political, economic or entertainingly distracting. Turn around. Change your way of thinking. Follow Jesus. |
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| Summary: We should never give in to despair, even when our efforts seem to make no real difference against the suffering of the world. Jesus’ victory over the unclean spirit teaches us that God ultimately will win the victory over evil. |
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| Summary: Mark tells the story of Christ’s coming to a world out of joint and in need of a compassionate Savior. |
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| Summary: Jesus heals a man of leprosy, a disease that made him ritually unclean and a social outcast. Jesus’ response shows his compassion for sufferers, and he restores the man to physical health and membership in the community. Jesus goes about his saving work, healing humanity of even deeper illnesses. |
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| Summary: When we are on the wrong path, we need someone to tell us so — maybe even Jesus! |
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