Evening: Psalm 49; John 11:1-16
After narrowly escaping stoning there, Jesus returns to Judea to confront the power of death. He starts by raising Lazarus from death. But the power of death is any power that diminishes, terrorizes, dehumanizes or kills any person, group, race, or nation. Jesus’s mission is to address this power of death in the world and to defeat it, so that all may live in abundance of life and without fear. He does this, paradoxically, by dying at the hands of those who wield unjust power. Victory over death’s power is not won without cost. And his mission is now ours.
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