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21 mins read|11/02/24Jesus is the ultimate, endearing, and definitive answer to the world’s problems, not any political party or ideology, nor any religion or the combination of the two.
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14 mins read|09/28/24What is implicit by way of accoutrements and ceremonies becomes explicit in the sermon: Beliefs are put to proclamation.
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14 mins read|07/14/24This divine self-attestation is, in other words, the Lord preaching the Word of the Lord; the Christ of the Gospel preaching the Gospel of Christ.
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23 mins read|07/06/24Our stories, be they never so inspiring or worthy of emulation, should never be equated with proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the Gospel Jesus Christ commissioned to be proclaimed.
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15 mins read|06/15/24I found in Jonathan Edwards an unexpected voice articulating beautiful aspects of death through the lens of Christ.
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17 mins read|06/01/24By death the Christian is brought to the actual possession of all his happiness, which is nothing other than Christ and all the benefits Christ has procured for His saints.
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10 mins read|05/25/24One now finds Edwards frequently commenting on the beautiful things about nature, life, and Christ, and he also manifests a creative perception of beauty when considering the most morose of topics: Death.
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15 mins read|05/03/24The Ascension of our Lord teaches how Heaven and Earth overlap and interlock and finally will be visibly joined together forever.
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25 mins read|04/13/24Rituals, like the liturgy and the sacraments, resist domestication and confront us with a world and worldview brought forth from the Bible and through twenty centuries of Christianity for the purpose of arresting our contemporary worldview through its self-sameness.
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14 mins read|03/16/24Preaching the inseparability of Jesus and Jerusalem is to proclaim God’s Messiah and the fulfillment of the Scriptures.
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14 mins read|02/17/24Whatever happened to things not liked? Can there be such a thing anymore? Does the desire to have a sermon “liked” factor into the craft of preaching?
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9 mins read|01/27/24Sin affects body and soul, right down to the core of our humanity. It calls for a drastic cure, for extreme measures.
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