Modern Theologians (188)
  1. The real power of his hymn comes from the fact that Bonhoeffer does not offer a rosy picture of life or any of the tropes so typical of cheap piety that tell us that everything is always right, that things happen for a reason, and that we should try to stay positive.
  2. Break the cycle. Rise above. Focus on Christ in the manger. In their monumental 100th episode, Gillespie and Riley read and discuss G.K. Chesterton’s “The Christmas Ballads.” This episode, it’s a lot of incarnation talk and a few rabbit trails along the way.
  3. The following is an excerpt from “A Year of Grace: Collected Sermons of Advent through Pentecost” written by Bo Giertz and translated by Bror Erickson (1517 Publishing, 2019).
  4. While we are promised that God will always be with us, we are also told of the benefits that can come to us even in our pain.
  5. I can only disbelieve you or believe you. If I disbelieve you, I go on being a miserable bore.
  6. We long for the Great Thanksgiving that hasn’t happened yet.
  7. JFK was not the only national figure who died on November 11, 1963. Though his death certainly took up most of the headlines, the acclaimed writers C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley also died that day as well.
  8. If you want to boil Schleiermacher down to some foundation upon which to build up his theology, think feelings.
  9. The following is an excerpt from “A Year of Grace Volume 2” written by Bo Giertz and translated by Bror Erickson (1517 Publishing, 2019).
  10. It is in the midst of a world marked by empty and deceptive hopes that have broken hearts and lives that we are sent to deliver the promise of a future that has as its last chapter the resurrection of the body to eternal life with the Lamb who was slain but is alive forevermore.
  11. The law does not end sin, does not make new beings, it only makes matters worse.
  12. Good theology is the most practical thing you can have.
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