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Sermon Text: Matt 5:6, Rev 6:10, Rev 7:9, Lord’s Prayer, Apostles Creed, All Saints Day A Lutherans we are trained to think in terms of paradoxes in tension. Here is what I mean by that. The big tension paradox is law and gospel. The law kills, yet is necessary to show . . . → Read More: The Communion of Saints My daughter’s violin school was invited to play with the RIT Orchestra in a Halloween concert today. It was of course very cute to see 30 costumed elementary students with violins playing ‘Go Tell Aunt Rhody’ backed by the RIT students. But that is not the real point. The conductor, a Dr. Michael Ruhling, gave a . . . → Read More: A phrase left hanging….  3 comments - (Comments are closed)  Culture, Revelation  evil, Halloween, last day, music, revelation, tribulation, victory Maybe a little intellectual, but good philosophy. Although I think it was said shorter in a couple of places like: Luke 12:23-25 (“who can add a single hour to his span of life?) or Philippians 1:21-23 or Luke 17:33 or Matt 6:11 (daily bread) or Exod 16:18-20 (the manna only lasts one day) or a . . . → Read More: No Ownership of the Future Comments are closed Culture, Revelation daily bread, natural revelation, philosophy, reason, revelation, theology Full Text Let me just say two things about this sermon: 1) I really hate it as a sermon. I think it misses the audience, doesn’t point to Christ enough, lacks a real solid textual foundation and doesn’t have the unity of message it should have. 2) I think some of the parts of it . . . → Read More: All Saints – Two Calendars telling a story Full Text One of the things ministers (at least Lutheran ministers) talk about all the time is what do you lead with. What I mean by that is this. The proclamation of the Lutheran is Law and Gospel. The law, in all its fierceness, says repent you poor miserable sinner. The Gospel announces . . . → Read More: Reformation Day Sermon – Law & Gospel: Living in the Tension Text: Romans 1:16-25 (also Jeremiah 2:11-13) Between being sick and what seemed like a random bunch of texts the last couple of weeks in devotion have not been very fruitful. It looks like the daily readings are bringing a couple of heavyweights out for a little while. Jeremiah will be the OT reading and . . . → Read More: Context – Arguing from the lesser to the greater Readings: Rev 18:15-24, Rev 19:1-20, Joel 1:1-12, Joel 1:13-20, Joel 2:3-11 The daly readings that I’ve been using interestingly don’t take us through the end of Revelation. But it picks an interesting place to stop – the victory of the Lord. The Harlot – false religion – has been thrown down. All heaven, saints . . . → Read More: Tuesday – End of Revelation; Quick read of Joel Today’s reading is Rev 17:1-18. The symbols are the harlot and the beast. The beast is the first beast that came out of the sea – the political beast. He still has 7 heads and 10 horns representing his authority. The Harlot is the ever-changing 2nd beast – the religious beast. . . . → Read More: Friday – Church & State and False Church Rev 16:1-11 is the reading assigned for the day. In that reading we see the third of seven cycles start – the bowls of the wrath of God. Two textual notes of interest. During the 1st cycle (trumpets) the plagues only effected 1/3rd of anything where with the bowls that limitation is removed. . . . → Read More: Wednesday – Contemplating the Personhood of God That word – election – has a theological meaning as well as the political. Today the citizens (and a few non-citizens singed up by ACORN and in Chicago a few dead people) of the US vote for political leaders of all stations – dog catcher to President. The intersection of the two meanings (political . . . → Read More: Tuesday – Election Day |
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