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Read MoreIn our text for today, Jesus travels to an area that is beyond those borders that are considered Jewish areas. He goes to the area of Tyre and Sidon, in a land known as Phoenicia (which coincides with the present-day country of Lebanon).
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Read MoreThings needed and beneficial for this life fall under the category of “daily bread.” When we pray, “Give us this day our daily bread,” in the Lord’s Prayer, that’s what we are praying about…
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Read MoreThe reading of the transfiguration account is placed at the very end of the Epiphany season. It is the climax of the Epiphany season. That is because this bizarre and strange and miraculous event reveals more clearly to human eyes – in this case, the eyes of Peter, James, and John – that we are not dealing with an ordinary man here.
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Read MoreTypically, Jesus speaks or commands that a healing take place and the healing takes place right then and there, right in front of their eyes. Here that is not the case.
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