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14 mins read|07/16/23The more the Christian imagines the Law of God provides a way to life (that is, by obeying God’s commands we can run clear of death), the more distant from life in the Spirit he becomes.
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10 mins read|07/09/23There is now a new Lord, and it is not sin, death, or anything else. It is Jesus.
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13 mins read|07/02/23Paul asserts the baptized have died in Christ but this death then makes them free to live unto Christ. Complicated? Yes, a little. Let us try to clarify things a bit.
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18 mins read|06/25/23Nothing can stand to oppose those who are in Him. They have been freed from slavery to sin and are now enslaved to a new Master and Lord.
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20 mins read|06/24/23In order to respect both liturgical consistency and the role of the homilist in the drama of the Divine Service: Let the pulpit be for proclamation, not personal prayer.
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17 mins read|06/18/23The main point Paul gets at in Romans concerns what God has done in the One, Jesus the Messiah, the rightful heir of God’s earthly Kingdom.
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13 mins read|06/04/23There could not be a better day for remembering baptism (the direction of Peter’s sermon) than this, the Festival of the Holy Trinity.
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19 mins read|05/28/23At the heart of Pentecost, the coming of the Holy Spirit launches the new Temple of the Lord, His holy Church.
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12 mins read|05/22/23The Lord’s prayer is a prayer in perfect accord with the will of God, and Jesus gifts it to us to plagiarize at will.
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11 mins read|05/21/23No persecutor can avail over the victory of Christ for His people. Even if death separates them from this world, it cannot separate them from the love of God and the redemption accomplished through Jesus Christ.
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16 mins read|05/14/23This pericope has law and gospel, as well as principles of Christian ethic. The effective preacher rightly distinguishes them but also confidently preaches them.
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14 mins read|05/13/23If Easter is about Jesus as the prototype of the new creation, then the Ascension is about His enthronement as the One who rules forevermore on Earth as it is in Heaven.
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