Category: theology
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“There is no more important calling for the church in our time than claiming the self-identification of the God who is the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ.”
A fundamental problem is that it is not at all clear exactly who God is. We have not become a secular society so much as we have become a generically religious one. Undifferentiated spiritual objects, therapies, and programs are widely marketed. Popular religion in America tends to be an amalgam of whatever presents itself. Discerning observers…
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“It isn’t that grace is ineffective or inefficient but that we are, being what we are, imperfect vessels for it. “
The man must never have known a longer hour. Hope is a thorn in the side of doubt, not a thing with feathers that perches in the soul. It aches. And at the end of it all he does —you will—still fail. Peter denies Christ again. The rooster crows, and Jesus looks at Peter, because…
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Of Monsters and Money
A sermon about the empire’s money, the exile’s hope, and the Savior who would not be bought.
David W. Swanson 