Gretchen Ronnevik | ELCA Chaplain's Assembly
Workshop on Rest and Renewal
Do we need to give things up for Lent?
EPISODE #106: Ted asks about whether Christians should give things up for Lent. Rod offers up some different conversations like, “How does the cross work? Why is the cross so important in Christianity?”, and the words that are associated with it: Reconciliation, Adoption, and the idea of Substitution.
Free To Be
The culmination of our episodes on ontology and time is declaring that you are free to be.
Do sins need to be forgiven after conversion?
EPISODE #101: Ted asks if Christians need forgiveness after conversion. Rod talks about what St. Paul describes about his Christian faith in Romans 7 and his struggles with his sin while remaining faithful, and God’s forgiving nature, and what it means for Christians to be regularly and constantly forgiven for their sins throughout their whole lives, even while they believe…
Is God’s focus to try to get as many sinners into heaven as possible, or to find any way to keep them out?
EPISODE #91: Ted asks about who God is and what He wants for us. Rod talks about what he learned in his training at Springfield Seminary about what God tells us in Scripture about what matters to Him, and that we should be able to see it in a simple reading of the New Testament, and what the ‘normal Christian…