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"The Place to Begin is with Astonishment"
He can walk on water, but he wants to be in the boat with us.
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Jason Micheli
29:32
God Is as God Does
Miracles are the moments in which, by which God determines who God is.
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Jason Micheli
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"We should not let Jonathan Edwards be buried under the grotesqueries of his popular image."
The preacher we most associate with fire and brimstone was actually a prolific proclaimer of beauty.
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Jason Micheli
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Remember, We Killed Jesus Because of Stories Like This
In Jesus's day, there was no such thing as a good Samaritan.
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Jason Micheli
3
20:44
5 + 2 + X = 5000+
Christ has come to proclaim liberty to the captives, but he will not become the mascot for a people’s movement of liberation.
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Jason Micheli
7
29:16
Jesus is Neither a Resource Nor a Mascot
The Temptation of Gehazi: making miracles into commodities
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Jason Micheli
The Word Speaks Still, And When He Does Even the Waves and the Winds Remember Who They Are
Miracles as Visible Words of the Gospel
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Jason Micheli
5

June 2025

“Perfectly free, servant of all.”
Too often the way we speak of freedom is the way the Bible speaks of sin.
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Jason Micheli
2
Jesus Changes Everything
The first task of the church is to be the church.
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Jason Micheli
, 
Kenneth Tanner
, and 
Todd Littleton
3
56:55
“This Had To Be Done”
a conversation with Rabbi Joseph Edelheit
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Jason Micheli
, 
Todd Littleton
, and 
Joseph A Edelheit
43:06
When Jesus Speaks, Even Death Listens
We forget: God loves being our God.
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Jason Micheli
3
31:34
"Grace is the destruction of the world’s antimonies"
There is a will that wills in our world that is not the will of God.
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Jason Micheli
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