The church is not renewed when one pastor tries to do the work of the whole body. The church is renewed when Christ’s body begins to act like a body again.
06/13/26
This is what Christian catechesis does; it turns the knobs of the Scriptures and throws the doors of God’s word wide open to tell us the story of salvation.
06/10/26
Christianity isn’t simply a tool to fix social, spiritual, or economic problems. Its claims are much larger, touching upon truth itself and therefore all things and all people.
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08/30/23
The issue is not the existence of so-called inner rings, but our desire and willingness to spend our lives in order to gain from an inner ring what is freely promised in Christ: hope, security, and identity.
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08/07/23
God comes to us through the flesh and blood and spirit of Christ precisely where he promised to be manifest to us and for us.
07/24/23
Only the resurrection of Jesus guarantees and facilitates divine presence and love to us as divine life for us.
07/17/23
If Jesus did not rise, then religion is just religion — a mere anthropological phenomenon.
07/13/23
While we wait in tribulation for our white robes (or pants) to be washed in the blood of the Lamb, we confess to one another our seen and unseen stains.
07/10/23
The resurrection of Jesus encompasses the total and comprehensive glorification of a human being, not merely his restoration.
06/16/23
God's faithfulness is constant and consistent. It knows no season. His love for us doesn't fade with the summer sun.
04/13/23
Paul thinks the consequences of Christ not being raised are worse for those who believe than those who never did if it were to be true Christ was not raised.
04/12/23
If it’s all a fiction spun by disappointed disciples, if it’s a mere symbol for the idea of an inner awakening, if it’s not a fact that Christ has been raised, then our grief and loss have no end, and we have no hope.
01/27/23
I think the problem with the idea of eternity is that we do not have any direct experience of it, but we encounter enough of its possibility to be unsettling.
01/23/23
Jesus not only healed her daughter, but he also gave himself to her. Wherever she went from then on, he was with her.
12/08/22
We will not become hopeless because the Lord is with us.
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