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11 mins read|05/09/24
Five Ascension Promises
Five promises were seemingly all those apostles, staring into the sky, had to go on. Five promises that were more than enough. -
16 mins read|09/20/23
Death, Taxes, and Baseball
We know that death does not have the last word in Christ. -
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. -
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|07/06/17
Unicorns in Heaven
Heaven is not our ultimate hope. Our promise is not to live forever riding on rainbows and soaring in the clouds.
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