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27 mins read|11/12/22The epistle text from Colossians 1 declares how the great drama of redemption and human history ends.
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16 mins read|10/30/22Whatever else may be said about the Last Day it consists of these two inseparable things: Christ’s coming and His kingdom people being gathered to Him.
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9 mins read|12/17/21The Advents of Christ (past, present, and future) elicit faith in the word of Christ, confirmed by his presence.
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15 mins read|06/05/21With the resurrection of the Christ the mystery of life after death became a lot less mysterious.
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19 mins read|11/15/20The resurrection of Jesus was the moment when the one true God appointed the Man through whom the whole cosmos would be brought back into its proper order. A man got us into this mess; the Man would get it out again.
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20 mins read|11/08/20Preaching the end times purposes to solicit and strengthen faith in the Savior of the world who is at the same time the Creator and Re-creator of the world.
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32 mins read|11/01/20Faithful preachers should remain steadfast in the biblical categories and terminology and preach the reality of death.
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16 mins read|07/12/20The 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.
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14 mins read|07/05/20Our 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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20 mins read|02/24/20The main point Paul has been getting at in Romans is what God has done in the One man Jesus the Messiah—the rightful heir of God’s earthly kingdom—is far, far more than simply putting the human race back where it was before the intrusion of sin.
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25 mins read|11/18/19The epistle text from Colossians 1 declares how the great drama of redemption and human history ends.
