TOPIC INDEXPractical Theology (10)

  1. Stewardship

    book
    12/01/20
    1 min
    By Scott Keith Caleb Keith David Rufner
    On Giving Tuesday 2020 the Thinking Fellows discuss stewardship.

  2. An American Myth Meets the Gospel of Jesus

    book
    02/05/20
    10 mins
    By David Rufner
    This is our frontier religion: God is waiting to shower blessings upon us if only we will unlock those blessings with the right kind of works, and a sufficient quantity of the same.

  3. The American Story in Light of the Gospel

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    05/14/19
    16 mins
    By David Rufner
    In these two stories - one ending and the other beginning just a day apart - we find many ingredients that are uniquely American. We find grit, determination, and conquest.

  4. Jesus and Pint-Sized Preachers

    book
    01/30/19
    12 mins
    By David Rufner
    Jesus is the heart of the Gospel, and the Gospel is Good News. But it is always Good News that comes to us best on the lips of another.

  5. Life Wrapped in Death, Wrapped in Life.

    book
    01/17/18
    10 mins
    By David Rufner
    In Adam and in us, life has been wrapped in death. But in Jesus, God has wrapped death in life.

  6. Joyful Birds, Joyful People

    book
    12/29/17
    10 mins
    By David Rufner
    Even now we sing as we live in His gifts, and await His second Advent—His second-coming.

  7. A Lost Prayer in the Valley of the Gods

    book
    12/08/17
    11 mins
    By David Rufner
    God graciously bursts our foolish plots by coming our way, into our very flesh, and being God with us.

  8. Beware The Lament

    book
    05/08/17
    11 mins
    By David Rufner
    Beware the lament, dear readers, that is not soothed with the good-goods of Jesus.

  9. I'm Itching for Wild Places

    book
    04/12/17
    11 mins
    By David Rufner
    The creation is one of God’s good gifts and being cut off from nature and wild places, as we often are in the modern world, is probably not so good for us.

  10. Christians Say the Darndest Things

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    03/20/17
    11 mins
    By David Rufner
    I’m still laughing now as hard as I laughed back then. And the salve that he gave me in that moment still works some strange magic on me to this day.