I turned one of my blog posts into my first sermon. For those of you who are of the mind, I thought I’d share it: Posted on February 1, 2022 by Black3ActualPosted in MY SERMONS, UNDERSTANDING SCRIPTURELeave a comment The Truth That Has Been Kept From Us If you love this countr...
I don’t think it was an impatience with the eschatological, but with the failure of the Church to exhibit, practically, the lessons of the Sermon on the Mount (among others). It’s as if these thinkers sought to scaffold the morality and metaphysics of Christianity without the mythology. ...
Martin Luther, perhaps surprisingly for someone so focused on the burden of human sin, said we were all called to be “little Christs,” and in a Christmas sermon he described the Incarnation as a two-way street: “Just as the word of God became flesh,” he said, “so it is certainl...
I attended mass at my local parish like I had every Sunday, but I failed to connect with the promise of mystery in my Catholic belief. Absorbing the mind numbing sappy, guitar hymns, or the fiftieth iteration of the “God loves you” sermon from a happy-go-lucky preacher, was a gut-w...
mentality among congregants, who may view their relationship with the church as transactional. Instead of engaging in a commitment to a faith community characterized by mutual support and accountability, individuals may flit between congregations, seeking the latest program or the most engaging sermon....
Thus it is by no means implied by the illustration that Israel, or any other nation, has been formed with the primary and irresistible purpose of rejecting it as a "vessel unto dishonour," or that, when rejected, it has not had opportunity of being otherwise; but only that God has ...
And you have to be very careful about who is privy to the network, as Emily learned the hard way at a church retreat in the sixth grade. “There was a sermon about homosexuality, and the preacher was saying that they were going to hell, and I was like, ‘Oh, my God, that’s me...
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