"Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood." Acts 20:28, ESV. Watch on YouTube. 

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[Paul] asked [the high priest] for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. (Acts 9:2, ESV). What does it mean to be "in the way" of Jesus?

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"Go and stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this Life.” 

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Reflection on the first stanza of "Go to Dark Gethsemane" for Passion Sunday

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In Isaiah 5, the Lord asks what more he can do for his vineyard than he has already done? In Luke 20 he gives the answer: send his beloved Son. 

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When we read the parables of Jesus looking for ourselves, we often find out we're the bad guys. The good guy in the story is God, who we discover is merciful and gracious and wants to gather the world together in his arms - the arms his Son stretched out on the cross.

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Can a leopard change its spots? Can you teach an old dog new tricks? Jesus challenges our assumption that "the apple new falls far from the tree" and suggests that change, for God, is never impossible.

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Jesus is no chicken. He portrays himself as a mother eagle longing to gather her wayward eaglets under her wings. We're reluctant to be gathered, but he comes to do it anyway.

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When people look at Christians, do they see holy people? What makes us holy? 

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Jesus calls us to follow him. But you cannot follow one whom you cannot rightly see.

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