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Lent 4B
March 15, 2015
O'Day, Gail, "Piety Without Pretense, Faith Without Falsehood: The Lenten Journey According to John," Journal for Preachers, 1997. Section on this text begins on page 12.
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“The decision that John 3:14-21 places before the church resonates even more intensely in the Lenten season. There may be no better place to contemplate the decision for life with God that this text describes than in the forty days of Lenten wilderness, because in the wilderness it is difficult, if not impossible, to hide from the moment of decision.”
- Buechner, Frederick, "Journey toward Wholeness," Theology Today, 1993.
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"All his life long, wherever Jesus looked he saw the world not in terms simply of its brokenness—a patchwork of light and dark calling forth in us now our light, now our dark—but in terms of the ultimate mystery of God's presence buried in it like a treasure buried in a field... .Tobe whole, I believe, is to see the world like that. To see the world like that, as Jesus saw it, is to be whole. And sometimes I believe that even people like you and me see it like that. Sometimes even in the midst of our confused and broken relationships with ourselves, with each other, with God, we catch glimpses of that holiness and wholeness that is not ours by a long shot and yet is part of who we are.”
- Craddock, Fred B., "From God, to God," The Christian Century, 2003.
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“For redemption in Christ to be complete, it must range as far and wide as the forces of evil.”
Long, Thomas G., "Just As I Am," The Christian Century, 2006.
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