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16 mins read|11/15/18What does it mean to be a child of God and to carry his image? This is a theological question, but it is a question necessary for our self-understanding
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18 mins read|09/18/18Can there be joy in obedience? That depends on if obedience if a free choice or the result of threats.
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11 mins read|08/01/18Life is certainly unfair. But in Christ, at least in part, we rejoice at such a notion. Grace, that great descriptor of God’s devotion, is a word that only finds its purpose, only exists at all, because it exists as a response to guilt.
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23 mins read|05/17/18There are a few occasions in the Bible where the curtain lifts, and we get to peer into the inner workings of the Divine Court.
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15 mins read|07/25/17You can see it far off, looming on the horizon, a thick fog menacing off the coast and swirling in the distance. You know the signs.
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15 mins read|07/18/17One of my favorite things to do in the summer is read out under the shade of my backyard tree. There, I have a reclining chair and small little side table.
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15 mins read|10/10/16I once heard an old, retired Lutheran professor give in interview on a podcast. He was asked by the interviewer why people should bother going to church if they could just be saved through a personal relationship with Jesus?
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16 mins read|07/06/16One of the interesting things about Paul’s writings that is not noticed enough is that Paul doesn’t really have an “application” section.
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16 mins read|06/13/16A crisis of faith always occurs when we begin to believe that God has betrayed us.
