Pentecost (58)
  1. He tries to open their eyes to see that the Sabbath is a time for saving life, not seeking to destroy it, for experiencing the love of God, not for practicing hatred.
  2. He is not a teacher who answers all sorts of speculative questions. He is your Savior, who answers the one question which matters the most for you: “How will you be saved?”
  3. Jesus is preparing us for a baptism by fire that will shatter our expectations.
  4. God will not be boxed in by our worries and He will not let our self-understanding be limited to our needs. Jesus knows there is more to God and more to us than what we are worried about.
  5. When people have idols, God ends up becoming the power they turn to to keep their idol going.
  6. Jesus is not asking us to figure out when He will return. Jesus is asking us to live everyday in the certainty that He will return.
  7. Life will not be easy. Conflicts will occur. But God remains in power, and He rules over all.
  8. If you have ever felt like you are standing on the outside looking in, like you do not belong in a beautiful church with its beautiful people, then listen to Jesus, because Jesus has a word for you.
  9. The presence of traditions is not the problem. It is the way in which we experience them. And on this day, Jesus reminds us of His presence, so all of us experience His grace.
  10. But Jesus did not come to be a bystander to His own creation. No, He came to be a redeemer of His people and to rule over all as the Lord of creation.
  11. We might think the course of our life is from our birth to our death. But Jesus opens our eyes to see that the direction of our existence is much larger than we can even imagine.
  12. This day is only part of a much longer journey, and Jesus invites us to stop looking at what He gives us and to live by looking to Him instead.
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