
Show, Don't Tell
Resurrection is far more than just a promise of life after death. Instead, it is a challenge to all the things that bring death into our world.
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Resurrection is far more than just a promise of life after death. Instead, it is a challenge to all the things that bring death into our world.
What happens? Exactly what you think would happen: people stop being polite and start getting real. So where does that leave us as followers of Jesus today? Maybe that from which we most want to turn away deserves our focus, at least briefly?
We cannot continue to follow the directions that we desire without regard to others. We must re-orient ourselves and re-focus our lives to be in closer relationship with God and neighbor.
We are reminded of the unbroken promises that God has made to us. Promises that remind us of God's love and mercy.
Lent is the time of "covenant review", raising the question of how each party has kept their end of the promise. Has God upheld God's end of the promise to always love us and be with us? Have we kept our end of the promise to follow...
Nothing that Peter and his friends do or see or hear or say makes any sense.