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Dr. Todd R. Wright
Jun 295 min read
"Defiant: Bithiah"
Things changed one day when a baby washed up on the shore – a Hebrew boy, mere days old, drowned like a dead fish, floating like a piece...
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Dr. Todd R. Wright
Jun 225 min read
"Defiant: Jochebed"
"...when Jochebed looked at her son, and saw that he was “good”, she decided to disobey Pharoah’s command. She did not immediately throw...
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Dr. Todd R. Wright
Jun 155 min read
"Defiant: Shiphrah and Puah"
Old and wise, our defiant pair told him what he was already prepared to believe: “The Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; for they...
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Dr. Todd R. Wright
May 184 min read
"The Gift of a Breath"
John’s account may not be as dramatic as Luke’s, but it is more intimate. He says Jesus breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy...
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Dr. Todd R. Wright
May 115 min read
"Bearing Witness"
It is necessary. Why? Because some people will not read the scriptures; some will not hear the sermons; some will not sing along with the...
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Dr. Todd R. Wright
Apr 276 min read
"The Final I AM"
Jesus will not hoard the words his followers need to hear. He looks into their frightened eyes and tells them, “I am the vine, you are...
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Dr. Todd R. Wright
Apr 205 min read
"Love Lost"
John cannot forget that on the last night with his disciples, his Lord gave his followers a commandment to love one another. It would...
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Dr. Todd R. Wright
Apr 135 min read
"Grounded in blood and bone"
Let me say it again, he took on blood and bone in the incarnation and he remains formed of blood and bone after the resurrection. Luke...
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Dr. Todd R. Wright
Apr 65 min read
"Center of the Storm"
It is easy to see the sin in others – the father who shouts abuse and throws things; the opponent who doesn’t see the world the way you...
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Dr. Todd R. Wright
Mar 305 min read
"Resurrection Glue"
She did not abandon Jesus in his hour of need. She will not walk away now. But she is grieving. She is broken. And she is grasping at the...
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Dr. Todd R. Wright
Mar 235 min read
"Choices"
John makes choices as he tells his version of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem. The crowd makes choices – both to come into the city, and in...
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Dr. Todd R. Wright
Mar 165 min read
"Time's Up"
When Jesus talks about the hour having come for the Son of Man to be glorified, about seeds and death (and life), about losing your life...
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Dr. Todd R. Wright
Mar 105 min read
"Three stories of Grace"
We were enemies once and so we were as good as dead. But God loved us; God reached out to us; God saved us by grace. Ephesians 2:1-10...
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Dr. Todd R. Wright
Mar 36 min read
"Holy Commotion"
We know that what John is asserting for his listeners is true: what we need is not a building, it is the body of Christ, the people of...
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Dr. Todd R. Wright
Feb 256 min read
"Inheriting the World"
There is an important qualifier. Perhaps you noticed it. Paul writes, “For the promise that he would inherit the world, did not come to...
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Dr. Todd R. Wright
Feb 184 min read
"I wonder if there was a rainbow"
So I wonder, on the day when Jesus was baptized, and the heavens were torn apart, was there a rainbow – a reminder that God had committed...
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Dr. Todd R. Wright
Feb 115 min read
"Can you see the light?"
If you are looking in the wrong place you will miss the light, the glow that reveals God. Mark 9:2-9 and 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 February 11,...
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Dr. Todd R. Wright
Feb 45 min read
"Healing From/By/For"
I don’t know for sure what Peter’s mother-in-law was thinking as she lay there, but illness and injury have a way of throwing us for a...
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Dr. Todd R. Wright
Jan 285 min read
"One Sabbath in Capernaum"
Whatever he taught, the people were astounded – for instead of just quoting other teachers, as was typical, he taught as one who knew God...
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Dr. Todd R. Wright
Jan 214 min read
"Immediately"
So what is your reason for following Jesus? Is it some sense of duty or the full flush of love? Is it hope conjured out of the crucible...
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