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12 mins read|08/06/23Paul speaks out of deep passion and great love for the salvation of all people, especially those bound to his ethnic heritage. Here we have Paul the evangelist. Paul is compelled by the love of Christ.
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16 mins read|07/30/23But praise be to God, Christ has the last word on death and the word is “Resurrection.” Death is not a permanent form of bondage.
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15 mins read|07/23/23The Earth itself, into which the blood of Christ seeped, will be redeemed and renewed, just like our spirits in Holy Baptism, and our bodies on the day of the resurrection.
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9 mins read|07/22/23Preaching justification by faith should not exclude the truth of regeneration, as if justification were an altogether separate phenomenon that took place sometime before and regeneration taking place later.
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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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