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The story of Joseph is such a beautiful one. Perhaps you know the story from the musical, “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.” There’s something about putting bible stories to music that helps them stick in our heads and our hearts a different way. And, if you’ve never seen the movie, you now have a plan for tonight! Here’s a little recap of the story of Joseph and his brothers. Joseph, his father’s favorite, had these dreams that proved prophetic. Now the sibli

Once upon a time, a blind man and a man with an unresponsive hand approached a great healer begging to be healed. They had received in a dream a vision that this healer could help them if he followed specific instructions. So, after some coaxing, the healer spat in the blind man’s eye and as he wiped the spittle away, the man’s sight was restored. Then the healer stepped on the withered hand and immediately it began to work again. Everyone was amazed. It was a miracle. Once

Today’s gospel passage, from chapter ten of the Gospel of Matthew, has us in the middle portion of Jesus’ ministry. We’ve left behind the narratives of his early life; he has begun gathering his core disciples; and more people are joining his movement by the day. Which means it is time, Jesus seems to be thinking, to outline a little more clearly and a little more forcefully, just what it means to become his follower. The bottom-line message he tries to get across is that b

From Sermons That Work: There it is again: the tenderness of God on display in the compassion and action of Jesus the Christ. It is the tenderness that welcomes desperate women who take their healing into their own hands, and irrational fathers who insist that daughters can be raised from the dead. It is the tenderness that calls disciples who have acted as traitors to their own occupied people, and hosts dinner parties that folks see, at best, as morally gray. With the evide