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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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27 mins read|12/10/23The Magnificat invites us to enter into, consider, and embrace the worldview of a teenaged Jewish girl and her geriatric aunt: The one bearing the prophet Elijah which was to come and the other carrying within her womb the God whom she and her nation worshipped and feared.
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30 mins read|11/05/23John’s excitement invites his readers to lay hold of this above all else: The lavish love of God.
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32 mins read|08/12/23Other non-Jews received healings, and these miracle-events illustratively preached the Gospel each time. Certainly, Jesus will jump on this opportunity, right? Wrong…at least for the moment.
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14 mins read|05/13/23If Easter is about Jesus as the prototype of the new creation, then the Ascension is about His enthronement as the One who rules forevermore on Earth as it is in Heaven.
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15 mins read|11/19/22For Christians, Advent is the time when the Church patiently prepares for the coming of the Great King, Jesus the Christ.
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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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20 mins read|10/23/22The phrase “works of the law” has an antithesis when it comes to righteousness—faith. What keeping the Law could not do, the gift of faith does.
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27 mins read|10/16/22Jesus speaks His Word, and a new world order emerges, with the possibility of uniting disparate parties in the true faith.
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16 mins read|10/09/22The Word and the Spirit go together. The Spirit, the breath of God, illumines and makes alive through the Word of God; both written and external, that is, preached and sacramented.
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