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Sermon: Are we trees planted by water or shrubs in the desert? Both!
Maybe the division that Jesus makes in his Sermon between the poor and the rich, the hungry and the filled, those who weep and those who laugh, those who receive praise and those who are rejected, is not just a distinction between two groups of people. Maybe this division is also within us. Maybe we are both the tree planted by water and the shrub in the desert. Continue reading
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Tagged beatitudes, blessings, Jeremiah 17:5-10, Luke 6:17-26, Poverty, Prophet Jeremiah, Sermon on the Plain, wealth, wisdom literature, woes, Year of Luke
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