Homily | March 30, 2026 | Are You Loving Or Managing Jesus? (Episode 71)

Holy Week slows our pace and sharpens our focus as we watch God’s power show up as gentleness rather than domination. We sit with Mary’s costly love and Judas’s careful objections until the question lands on us: are we loving Jesus or managing him?
• Monday of Holy Week as a threshold to the Passion
• Isaiah’s servant as a picture of gentle strength
• Jesus at table in Bethany with Lazarus present
• Mary’s extravagant anointing as fearless devotion
• Judas’s “responsible” argument as a mask for control
• The danger of being near Jesus but far in heart
• The fragrance of real love that changes a room
• The call to stop negotiating and give ourselves fully

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