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Formations: November 08
One Little Word
One little word in Luke 13:31 pretty much demolishes the conventional understanding of the Pharisees that I grew up with. Luke says that some Pharisees came to warn Jesus about Herod Antipas’s plan to kill Jesus.
Some Pharisees. Not “the” Pharisees, as we usually think of them, but some.
Connections: November 08
Faithful Mourning
Sometimes we get overconfident about our status as followers of Christ. When we envision the day of the Lord, we might think of a cultural phenomenon known as the rapture, which says Christians will be taken up to heaven while the rest of the world suffers on earth. Or we might think of justice flowing through the world, righting all wrongs…except our own.
Intersection: November 08
Fail Often. It's Good For You
Matthew 4:1-11 shows us that not all successes are immediate or even look like success to those around us. Oftentimes the most gratifying result occurs in the long term and rarely looks like what you, or others, had in mind.
Failure is an experiment in the life we want to live and is often the our first sign of future success.
FaithSteps Family Devotions
Tell Me the Story
Telling stories isn’t new. In fact, it’s the way the people of the Bible passed on important teachings. It’s even how the Bible got started: the people would tell the stories of God. They passed on the stories of things that God had done to their children, and their children told their children, and so on, until eventually the stories were written down.
Reflections Devotional
Tradition
I fiddle with my computer. I look out the window. I think about the load of laundry I could put in the washer. These reactions are signs that I’m having trouble with this Scripture. I struggle with the part about “stand firm” and “hold fast to the traditions” (2:15). My first thought is negative; I think of all the times people hold traditions simply for the sake of tradition.
Sparrows and Androids
by Skyler Daniel
“Thank you. Have a nice day.”
“Yes, you too, thank you.”
Rewind. Somewhere between the cell phone, the plastic card, and the employee in the green apron, between the cash register, the conveyor belt, and the profusion of polyethylene bags, there is a human. She has a name.
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