What does Karl Barth have to say about Christmas? How hard is it to preach/lead worship on Christmas Eve? Why should we give God all the good verbs?
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Christmas is a reminder to us that not only are we worthy of the gift given to us by God in Christ but at the very same time the gift is ours whether we realize how much we need it. The grace of God in Christ is a precious gift, and, by the grace of God, a gift we can’t return.
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I fear losing my enemies, since my hates are more precious to me than my loves. If I lost my hates, my enemies, how would I know who I am?
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A prayer for Election Day 2020
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Donald Trump’s Republican Party is NOT her party nor is it the Pro-Life, Character Counts, Christian Values party for which she worked for two decades, and she’s on the podcast to share her concern and righteous indignation.
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“The Church is the Church only when it exists for others…not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.” ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison
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The vice of liberalism is not selfishness so much as a forgetfulness that spreads like a blight from the habit of abstraction. Martin Luther King Jr. remembered his people, his savior, and his church, and he called the rest of us to share those memories. Therein lay his strength.
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Is there such a thing as too much coffee? Are clergy allowed to sin? Why does Paul have so much swagger?
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David Gushee is our guest on Crackers & Grape Juice. His new book is After Evangelicalism: The Path to a New Christianity.
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“Because of God's completed work, we are already IN Christ and on that basis, not on the basis of our growth or transformation, we are saints.”
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This is a book that should be required reading for all Christians, especially Christians living in the United States in 2020.
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"God is love, Who's he kidding?"
“It is true that theological doctrines and religious practices do shape and form religious experience, but it is no less true that experience tends to resist such shaping and forming. Attention to the complex interaction of these two insights is a key dimension of the account of “grace as experience” that follows below.”
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“Moralistic liberalism and individual pietism are mirror evils that have made the church understood as the distinctive Body of Christ virtually invisible in America.”
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The quarantine playlist from Crackers & Grape Juice
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If I wanted to share the gospel with anyone who wasn’t white, I would have to abandon the secular faith of my ancestors. The two were irreconcilable."
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Christian ethics is about being schooled in the narrative of Jesus and discipleship. It is not about what you would do in a hypothetical situation, it is about forming people who will act in a particular way when those situations come up.
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Drew Hart joins the podcast to discuss his forthcoming book, 'Who Will Be A Witness ' (September 2020), the ghosts of America's racist past, and what the Gospel says to us in a moment of pandemic, protest, and movement.
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