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7 mins read|03/12/20Paul says that the power of sin is the law. The more clearly we understand the law, the more sin oppresses and stings us.
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11 mins read|03/03/20When talking about God’s ultimate destination for us, we’ve grown sloppy in our language, nearsighted in our gaze, and un-Easter in our hope. We act and speak as if dying and going to heaven is what the faith is all about. It is most emphatically not.
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13 mins read|02/12/20The implications were clear: Jesus’ death destroyed the things that distinguished people as educated or uneducated, rich or poor, free or enslaved, black or white, pious or godless.
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10 mins read|02/10/20His resurrection reveals that Jonah, and all of us, even the evilest people, are salvageable, even from suicide, in Jesus' death and resurrection.
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7 mins read|01/30/20We can rejoice in our own need and the gift we receive through baptism given by the same one by whom John desired to be baptized.
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6 mins read|01/24/20The following is an excerpt from "Finding Christ in the Straw" written by Robert M. Hiller (1517 Publishing, 2020).
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6 mins read|12/23/19The promise of Advent is the promise of the lamb slain, who is born and given for us so that we don’t have to fear sin, death, and hell.
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1 min read|12/13/19The Crazy Old Man showers undeserved grace on the idiot son . . . oh, and the prodigal son gets some love, too.
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15 mins read|09/30/19Theology is not to simply adopt the positions and presuppositions of philosophy, nor should it reject philosophy.
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12 mins read|09/09/19I had been taught and believed in a God who is love, but as I walked outside that night I did not see him. I saw the stars and I felt their indifference.
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7 mins read|09/03/19Rather than validate our selfish, self-serving choices, he justifies us by giving us new life and baptizing us into his death and resurrection.
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12 mins read|06/26/19When the church has gone astray, it has been the responsible (not slavish) approach to history that has helped correct the course.
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