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The View From Here
I’m in the middle of a few days of travel to visit different church planters in Illinois, Indiana, and St. Louis. Earlier today I spent a few minutes at the Old Courthouse, the site of the Dred Scott cases in the mid 1800’s.
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A Sermon: Justice for Jordan Davis
Here’s a lightly edited version of the sermon I preached at New Community Covenant Church on Sunday. Unlike most of my sermons this one was written quickly, after the news broke from the Michael Dunn trial on Saturday evening. In November 2012, 17-year-old African American Jordan Davis and his friends were parked outside a convenience…
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“…a truly magnificent possible world.”
I suppose your thinking is that it is suffering and sin that make this world less than perfect. But then your question makes sense only if the best possible worlds contain no sin or suffering. And is that true? Maybe the best worlds contain free creatures some of whom sometimes do what is wrong. Indeed,…
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A Sermon: Reading the Bible Together
Here’s a lightly edited version of this past Sunday’s sermon at New Community Covenant Church. As a church we say that, “We desire to listen and submit to the Scripture, God’s revealed Word for His beloved children.” There are at least two important assumptions within this statement. The first is that God reveals himself through…
David W. Swanson
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