Reading and preaching Hebrews without supersessionism
Season after Pentecost | 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)
Amos 5:6-7, 10-15 (Psalm 90:12-17); Hebrews 4:12-16; Mark 10:17-31 | Semi-continuous first reading: Job 23:1-9, 16-17 (Psalm 22:1-15)
The purpose of the word of God is not to make us feel condemnable, but to help us see what is commendable.
Her radical final words confounded me for years.
How one youth leader stopped being a chief counselor of fun and discovered something better.
Neither is religion.
We are worthy, loved, and enough. But so is everyone else.