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6 mins read|06/30/21“Religion is predicated on the idea that our time here is short and should be shorter, that our job is to bring on the end of days. This is just a veil of tears and guilt and shame. This, the only life we have—the only life we have that contains music and art and literature and solidarity and sex and love—all of this should be swept away. We can’t wait for the end times to come. That’s what they all have to believe.”
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9 mins read|06/27/21Our leaders, our pastors, our priests, our teachers, all have feet of clay, just as leaders in Israel did. We do not put our faith in them, even in the ones—perhaps *especially* the ones—in whom we are inclined to have great expectations. They preach the Messiah but are not the Messiah.
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16 mins read|06/27/21The Christian sermon is Gospel preaching. We only preach the Gospel. Only the Gospel is the sermon, notwithstanding necessary admonishments of law and requisite exhortations toward sanctification.
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1 min read|06/27/21Pastor Hodel Teaches on Mark 4:34-41
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9 mins read|06/26/21Ezekiel is not called/sent out to be “successful” in his prophetic ministry—he is sent out to be faithful!
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16 mins read|06/26/21The God whose power is made perfect in our weakness is the God who, in weakness, saved you from sin, death, and the Devil.
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12 mins read|06/26/21Jesus will bring good news, send His disciples to bring good news, and, in His death and resurrection, become good news for all.
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11 mins read|06/26/21Take away the communal aspect, take away the communal gathering around Christ’s body and blood, and the Christian will begin to suffer a malnutrition of faith.
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6 mins read|06/23/21“We were baffled by climatic and cataclysmic events: earthquakes, tidal waves, storms, lightning. All of this was to us terrifying. Religion works as an attempt, then, to make sense of things. We are pattern-seeking mammals, after all. It’s a good thing that we are, because if we weren’t pattern-seeking mammals, our curiosity would have no outlet and we wouldn’t be capable of the great innovations that have liberated us from so many things, including religion.”
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18 mins read|06/20/21This is the litmus test for a Christian sermon: Did Christ have to die upon the cross for me to be able to say this and to say it as His very own message?
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