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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. -
10 mins read|05/06/20
Christian Hope
While faith forms the relationship with God and love the relationship with the neighbor, hope forms the Christian’s relationship with the future. -
11 mins read|03/23/20
Epistle: Romans 8:1-11 (Lent 5: Series A)
There has been a blood atonement for sin. Jesus is our propitiation. Jesus has expiated sin. Lent climaxes with this expectation. -
11 mins read|03/03/20
I Can’t Wait to Get out of Heaven
When talking about God’s ultimate destination for us, we’ve grown sloppy in our language, nearsighted in our gaze, and un-Easter in our hope. We act and speak as if dying and going to heaven is what the faith is all about. It is most emphatically not. -
11 mins read|12/30/19
Groaning-God
Into the suffocating prison of sorrow, God sends his Breath, his Holy Spirit to help us. We may suffer, but we will not be alone.
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