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19 mins read|07/26/24The point of Revelation is to reveal consolation in Jesus, not to revel in chaos and confusion.
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7 mins read|07/02/24In Christ, this world’s never-children are his always-children, because he isn’t a God of death, after all.
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20 mins read|01/27/23I think the problem with the idea of eternity is that we do not have any direct experience of it, but we encounter enough of its possibility to be unsettling.
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9 mins read|08/14/22As is often the case in Scripture, creation is about a renewed, restored, and redeemed relationship with the Creator.
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10 mins read|12/25/21What we are asked to believe as we ponder the birth of this child is that in his coming, a new creation has dawned.
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14 mins read|12/03/21Each week during this year’s Advent series, we will take a look at a specific implication of Christ’s incarnation. This week, we will discover how God reaffirms the goodness of his creation by making all things new in the incarnation.
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14 mins read|01/10/21God makes all things new. He refashions us from those turned in upon ourselves, turned to idols of our own choice and making, to experience the freedom He gives by pronouncing us His righteous children.
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6 mins read|10/23/20God's city is beautiful because God has constructed it to offer eternal safety to all weary sinners.
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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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11 mins read|04/22/20When Christians die, heaven does not “get another angel.” We cannot become angels any more than we can become giraffes or ocean waves or stars. We are people and will remain so after this present life. God did not make a mistake when he made us human.
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11 mins read|03/03/20When talking about God’s ultimate destination for us, we’ve grown sloppy in our language, nearsighted in our gaze, and un-Easter in our hope. We act and speak as if dying and going to heaven is what the faith is all about. It is most emphatically not.
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