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9 mins read|11/06/16The church is God’s flock. Jesus is both a lion and a lamb. The zoo turns out to be as packed with theology as a seminary, if not more.
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11 mins read|10/06/16We who fall within the Protestant camp of Christianity have longstanding issues with ritual. I get that. Ritual is often abused. Idolatrized. It can easily devolve into a hollow act of religious farce.
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7 mins read|10/04/16The side of God he has made known to us is Jesus. He is the one and only revelation of the Father, the one and only revelation we need.
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11 mins read|09/29/16We need pastors who carry that same concealed weapon in their mouths, who are outfitted with the same word the angels have: the word steeped in divine blood, shed for you. That is all we need, for the word does it all.
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7 mins read|09/22/16Imagine if Zacchaeus posted on Jerusalem's Facebook a selfie with Jesus. The top dog among the tax-gougers with Christ at his dinner table. Oh, the outrage! The puritanical zealots would have been tweeting and blogging about it for months.
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9 mins read|09/12/16Real theologians can’t shut up about who Jesus is and what he’s done on your behalf. So-called theologians with little interest in Jesus may be book smart but they're Gospel stupid.
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12 mins read|08/16/16Although I was too young to have mastered the skill of lying, I also knew that I couldn’t tell this woman the truth.
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9 mins read|07/22/16He lavishly pours out His rest in the waters of Baptism, in the spoken words of absolution from the pastor’s lips, in the preaching of the cross and resurrection, in the consumption of heavenly cuisine from the table at which He is host and meal.
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11 mins read|07/18/16There are many funeral songs I wouldn’t be caught dead singing. Why? Because my funeral will not be about me.
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9 mins read|06/30/16Why was Jesus crucified? Not to save victims, but to save sinners.
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13 mins read|05/19/16He has wandered away into the darkness of his doubting, got lost in his grief, confused by the pains he’s suffered. It happens. Shepherds sometimes become lost sheep as well.
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5 mins read|05/02/16What Jesus did and gives on these two Thursdays encapsulates his whole life and mission.
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