Tag: Christianity
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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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“Then white evangelicals voted for Mr. Trump by a larger margin than they had voted for any presidential candidate.”
Black congregants — as recounted by people in Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Fort Worth and elsewhere — had already grown uneasy in recent years as they watched their white pastors fail to address police shootings of African-Americans. They heard prayers for Paris, for Brussels, for law enforcement; they heard that one should keep one’s eyes…
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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 