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Apr 18, 2012

Volume 129, Issue #8

Lectionary

Sunday, April 29, 2012 (1 John 3:16–24)

"How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses to help?" Even some Christians rule 1 John's question out of order.

Sunday, April 22, 2012 (Luke 24:36b–48)

The appearance of a ghost can be explained in all sorts of ways. But when Jesus appears—bearing scars and hungry for a nice piece of tilapia—then we have to do more than merely rearrange some intellectual furniture.

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