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Text: Romans 10:1-13 The prayer book that I follow has the 2 year daily lectionary texts (OT, Epistle and Gospel) and it also includes a 4th readings from a wide variety of saints from accross time. The philosopher Pascal (Pascal’s wager, Pascal’s triangle) was the writer of today’s fourth reading. Pascal was for much . . . → Read More: Knowledge and Love – Grace Alone
Text: Jeremiah 22:13-23 The Spirit of God is often pictured as the Wind. We do not see the wind itself, but we see its effects. The frightening thing about that what happens when we lose the ability to recognize the true prophetic Word from the wind itself? Martin Luther worried about such a . . . → Read More: Shepherded by the Wind
Full Text Text: Mark 14:32-42 Two poles – 1) It’s about Jesus and 2) He’s got a mission. That has been the core summary of this series through Holy Week in Mark’s Gospel. Our spiritual adversary tries to push us off that second pole. The last thing he wants is faithful Christians actually sharing . . . → Read More: Don’t look inward, look outward for our salvation and our mission
Text: John 6:27-40 Jesus says in verse 28 – This is the Work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent. Is the Work of God something that we do, or is it something that God does? Luther’s explanation to the 3rd article starts out, “I believe that I cannot by . . . → Read More: Doing the Work of God
Full Text The text was John 3:1-21 which includes John 3:16. The scene set up is Nicodemus coming to Jesus at night and a conversation happens. Nicodemus drops out of the conversation exasperated. And then it turns into a one sided conversation. This sermon reads that one sided conversation of Jesus as starting out . . . → Read More: For God so Loved the World?
Full Text Wow, it was a busy week. This text was the core of my lenten devotion last week. Prepping for Mauday Thursday as well. It was Mark’s account of the Last Supper. In these lenten devotions, we’ve been walking through the Markan account of Holy Week. I’ve also been using . . . → Read More: Ritual – Mark 14:22-26
Last week I know I was hoping to get back to writing these more regularly as we got into Jeremiah and Romans. My wife is roughly 8 months pregnant and is starting to run out of steam much quicker. Short answer is that the family has been taking more time of necessity. . . . → Read More: The Law, repentance and hypocrisy – and a quick note
No this is not a post about the young vs. the old. These two posts – post 1, post 2 – from the Faith & Theology blog summarize my thoughts on quality hymns. Our hymnbooks (we have two in the pews) have collected the best that certain traditions have offered. Lutheran Service . . . → Read More: Chronological Discrimination
Full Text The story of Jacob wrestling God all night is a little like each sermon prep. Sometimes you are exhausted, but have feel like you have extracted something worth sharing. Some weeks you feel like the Rock just slammed you from the top rope about 10 mins into the match. The technical word . . . → Read More: Theology of the Cross – 1 Cor 1:18-31
I’ve got it in the blog-roll on the right – a web site dedicated to a critical look of media coverage of religion called Get Religion. One of the contributors, a long time major newpaper religion beat writer, talks about the blind spot or the religious/theological ghosts in news stories. Reporters who don’t . . . → Read More: Theological Ghosts & The Year of Jubilee |
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