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11 mins read|08/09/20
Epistle: Romans 11:1-2a, 13-15, 28-32 (Pentecost 11: Series A)
God’s newly reconstituted Israel occurs in and around Jesus to include both Jew and Gentile, not by ethnic association but by faith and water (baptism) and blood (atonement and Eucharist). -
13 mins read|08/02/20
Epistle: Romans 10:5-17 (Pentecost 10: Series A)
Here we have the other major theme within Romans: God will have mercy on whom He has mercy, and He will have compassion on whom He has compassion -
12 mins read|07/26/20
Epistle: Romans 9:1-5 (6-13) (Pentecost 9: Series A)
The lifeblood of Christ is the treasury that defines personal worth – your worth, my worth. Preach that; the price tag on your soul. -
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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