The call to repent is a call to acknowledge I’m going the wrong way. It’s not a punishment, it’s a gracious invitation to stop, turn and come home. It’s a bittersweet familiar companion. There’s a grief of heart that comes from the conviction of wrong, a grief of heart that is amplified when offence to …

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Winn Collier writes about the beatitudes as encouragements for those at the margins rather than a recipe of ‘be this and get that’. Why? To assure us that in the kingdom, we should never be undone by finding ourselves at the margins. From the post: The life Jesus announces really does turn everything topsy-turvy. Jesus …

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