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Practicing Guide: Living with the Frail Messiah

Step 1. Seek the Overlooked

  • Intentionally greet or acknowledge someone who is usually ignored (the janitor, cashier, homeless neighbor, quiet co-worker).
  • Say something kind or respectful.
  • Remember: “Whatever you did for the least of these, you did for me.”

Step 2.

Expect lashes, wealthy people!

You will think twice about your abundant wealth

With the wealth you receive from God you get the same size of obligation to distribute it. Otherwise prepare to receive lashes. Who do you think will receive less lashes: a billionaire who donated 500 million out of his one billion, or a millionaire who donated 500 thousand out of his one million? You might think the half a billion did more good things: more hospitals, more food for the homeless...

Someone Has to Think About the Morning

The Night Before the Sermon

The night was cool, and the small fire burned low.
The twelve lay scattered in the open, each wrapped in his cloak, asleep after a long day of walking and teaching. Only Judas remained awake.

The purse lay beside him — a rough, patched bag with a thin leather strap. He loosened its knot and felt the small pile of coins with his fingers. The metal was warm from his hand, and the sound of it, the soft clink in the dark, gave him a strange comfort.

The Mission of the Apostles and the Judgment of the Nations

When Jesus sent out His disciples, He gave strange instructions: “Take nothing for your journey — no bag, no bread, no money, not even a second tunic. Stay in one house. If you are rejected, shake the dust from your feet.” At first, this sounds like a test of radical trust in God. But then the Gospels don’t even agree — Matthew says “no staff,” Mark says “take only a...
1. The Surprising Command When Jesus sent out His disciples, He gave strange instructions: “Take nothing for your journey — no bag, no bread, no money, not even a second tunic. Stay in one house. If you are rejected, shake the dust from your feet.” At first, this sounds like a test of radical trust in God. But then the Gospels don’t even agree — Matthew says “no staff,” Mark says “take only a...
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