The way out of our political morass is first to recognize the formative power of the political forces all around us, and then to recover historic Christian practices that shape us according to the truth of the gospel.
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The Hope found in our baptism is an invitation to clothe ourselves in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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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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We continue to look to the heavens today. We petition God to come down from on high, liberating us, healing us from the things that stand against us. The earnest prayers of the people of God today are not unlike the prayers lifted up by Israel as they awaited the birth of the Messiah.
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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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This Advent let God’s grace illuminate the world around you while we wait… and wait.
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Whatever you have been called to, the Lord will equip you. The Lord will not leave you in the darkness alone
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We do not know what guise Jesus will appear in, and so we find ourselves between two Advents – knowing Christ as come and that Christ promises to come again
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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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There has been much this year to leave us feeling as though being thankful, assuming a posture of gratitude is beyond what this year has done to us. And still, we will pause and give thanks.
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We can do the things Christ called his Church to do - feed the hungry, heal the sick, care for the least, search out the lost, proclaim God’s reign - and at the same time disagree without threatening further division and fracturing of Christ’s body.
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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 greatest commandments, loving “the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength” and loving your neighbor is a little less daunting knowing that before we ever attempt to fulfill it, Christ first loved us.
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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 things of the past, the things that competed for our attention, and pulled us away from God no longer have a hold on our lives. And now, in the new life, we put on – whether it be two weeks or two decades ago – we find a new life, free from the things that competed for our attention, living in the fullness of the faithfulness of Jesus.
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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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At a basic level (is anything basic when it comes to theology?), the saving power of the Grace of Christ is perhaps the one thing theologians and Christians around the world can actually agree one.
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