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11 mins read|08/09/20God’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).
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10 mins read|08/09/20The scandal of this text for the Jewish people is the inclusion of all nations and peoples into the Holy House of the LORD.
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12 mins read|08/02/20It is important to see how the LORD does NOT answer the questions Job and his friends have been wrestling with.
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13 mins read|08/02/20Here 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
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12 mins read|08/02/20If the feeding of the 5000 invited an emphasis on Jesus’ COMPASSION, this week’s miracle invites a sermon focused on Jesus’ AUTHORITY.
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11 mins read|07/26/20Jesus’ miracle in this sermon, then, is a type of the compassion He has for your hearers. While they certainly have many physical needs, your hearers also (more fundamentally) need Jesus’ mercy and forgiveness.
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12 mins read|07/26/20The lifeblood of Christ is the treasury that defines personal worth – your worth, my worth. Preach that; the price tag on your soul.
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8 mins read|07/26/20This food, already purchased and freely given in our pericope, is a foretaste of the feast to come as well; the marriage feast of the Lamb in His Kingdom which has no end.
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9 mins read|07/19/20To dwell with a Holy God in their camp, Israel lead holy lives. Anything standing in the way of and threatening this holy relationship must be avoided or eliminated.
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15 mins read|07/19/20It is that love, finally, which comes back again and again, not as an afterthought, but as the underlying theme of the entire section.
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12 mins read|07/19/20These parables invite us to consider the mysterious way of the reign of God. The Kingdom of God comes by grace to those who are seeking and not seeking it.
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11 mins read|07/12/20In Christ, God promises to forgive sin and bring about new life: Life after being canceled.
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