Matthew 8:5-13 has Jesus healing the lover of the local commander of the Roman army. For many of us, we quietly wish pain and suffering upon those who hold us oppressed, but this confronting image of Jesus bringing healing to an enemy’s household moves us into a greater, more sacred understanding.
Mark 5:1-17
What is the cost for the healing of an individual?
In the midst of a pandemic can we put a finacial cost on the healing of individuals in our communities?
Holy Week #4
How does what we do now prepare us for the moments to come?
The first Passover meal was a meal that was eaten with your shoes on, fuelled up and ready to move. This was not a celebratory meal, this was a meal eaten with the intent to move from a place of slavery into a new prophetically imagined world.
Holy Week #3
When our wilderness experience feels like a desert, how do we imagine a place of sacred, life giving, water? Surely any water in that moment feels like a miracle.
Holy Week #2
The Kingdom of God calls us beyond the violence of human made kingdoms. If a people are called to be a light to the nations, then what would the world look like if all nations behaved as ours does?
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