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Full Text …Because Jesus entered into this groaning and futile mess. It easily could all be meaningless. But He said no. I’m going to claim it. I’m going to redeem it. Jesus felt and experienced the full futility. Disciples who didn’t get it. Kinsmen who rejected him. Fellow Jews . . . → Read More: Futility and Hope Full Text It struck me yesterday, if he would have been open to hearing, how applicable Peter’s final words would have be to Rep. Wiener. Peter, more than any other apostle, uses the life of Christ as our example. And he ends his instructions for Christian living with three imperatives (verbs in the command tense, . . . → Read More: We don’t believe in one, and turn our eyes from the other Full Text If I’m looking at this sermon critically – it is too much lecture and not enough preaching. Here is what I mean by that: a lecture conveys information while preaching reaches beyond that. The core of the text (1 Pet 3:13-22) as I read it was a summary of Peter’s argument up to this point, . . . → Read More: Hope and Holiness Full Text Matt 2:13-23 This is an awful Christmas text. It is heart wrench and not at all in the saccharine mode of modern Christmas. In the words of Doctor Who – ‘its half-way through the dark.’ So far I’m finding Matthew tougher that either Luke or Mark to preach from. I think that is because . . . → Read More: The Holy Innocents This link has a Sullivan reader giving his logic on why suffering should lead to atheism. Here is the simple Christian answer. We have done something terribly wrong and its fouled up this entire existence. To our relative way of thinking our petty sins aren’t that bad. But to the absolute standard of holiness. . . . → Read More: Suffering & A “Good” God |
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