With John's death, Jesus finds himself out front.

It gives him pause.

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In a surprising turn, Esau offers us saving words. "I have enough."

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Solomon's wisdom is idomatic, but even that didn't play out without its downsides. Suffering leaderhips these days that is far from wise, what hope to we have--but hope?

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Jacob busts his buttons with pride to discover what's already been discovered.

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Reading scripture for people whom we ought to be like rather than for people who are actully like us constrains it, fundamentally changed the story of God-with-us, steadfast in faithfulness. We can do better.

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The yoke is easy, but is yet a yoke. The burden is light, but is still burden.

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God is still speaking. Good thing Abraham was still listening.

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We don't have to figure out the plan and follow it. Faith is less about figuring things out and more about trusting God's promise of presence, God's enduring, undesvered faithfulness, and God's providence as a wide land of privision in reponse to our freedom. So let's keep going.

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Sarah thought she shouldn't have laughed, and everyone ever seince seems to agree. But Isaac was laughter so the story suggests we might all be wrong.

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In the age of AI intimacy, gathering for church is radically counter-cultural even if sometimes a pain in the neck.

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