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16 mins read|07/30/23
Epistle: Romans 8:28-39 (Pentecost 9: Series A)
But praise be to God, Christ has the last word on death and the word is “Resurrection.” Death is not a permanent form of bondage. -
14 mins read|07/16/23
Epistle: Romans 8:12-17 (Pentecost 7: Series A)
The more the Christian imagines the Law of God provides a way to life (that is, by obeying God’s commands we can run clear of death), the more distant from life in the Spirit he becomes. -
11 mins read|03/26/23
Epistle: Romans 8:1-11 (Lent 5: Series A)
Look to the cross of Christ and there we see sin has been executed to death. -
15 mins read|07/19/20
Epistle: Romans 8:28-39 (Pentecost 8: Series A)
It is that love, finally, which comes back again and again, not as an afterthought, but as the underlying theme of the entire section. -
16 mins read|07/12/20
Epistle: Romans 8:18-27 (Pentecost 7: Series A)
The Earth itself, into which the blood of Christ seeped, will be redeemed and renewed, just like our spirits in Holy Baptism, just like our bodies on the day of the resurrection. -
14 mins read|07/05/20
Epistle: Romans 8:12-17 (Pentecost 6: Series A)
Our passage from Romans steers us between these two dangerous misconceptions: The mythical monster Scylla of believing the body to be evil on the one shore, and the beast Charybdis of believing the body constitutes all there is on the other.
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