Category: Scripture
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“There is no good news in religion for those who have not turned or cannot turn. “
The first element of this [Christian] uniqueness is that the Christian faith glorifies as Son of God a man who was degraded and dehumanized by his fellow human beings as much as it is possible to be, by decree of both church and state, and that he died in a way designed to subject him…
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Courageous Discipleship in an Idolatrous Nation
A sermon from 1 Thessalonians 1 on the Martin Luther King Day weekend, following the miscarriage of justice for Laquan McDonald.
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Litany for the 2016 Election… and today.
A president has been elected for whom money is god, for whom celebrity is currency, and for whom laws are manipulated for personal gain.
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“There was never a time when God was against us.”
From her chapter on the atonement motif of blood sacrifice in The Crucifixion, Fleming Rutledge writes, God is not divided against himself. When we see Jesus, we see the Father (John 14:7). The Father did not look at Jesus on the cross and suddenly have a change of heart. The purpose of the atonement was…
David W. Swanson 