Fourth Sunday in Lent
Spark your thoughts for March 10, 2024! Tune in to “Lectionary Kick-start” for a discussion about the texts for the fourth Sunday in Lent
Spark your thoughts for March 10, 2024! Tune in to “Lectionary Kick-start” for a discussion about the texts for the fourth Sunday in Lent
Exploring the creationist movement that predates Darwin by fifty years
Secure in our relationship with God (by grace through faith – first kind of righteousness) we are empowered by God to live as God’s people in this world, loving God, by loving our neighbor
Why do we preach to the baptized as if they weren’t Christian?
Chapel Sermon by Jeffrey Gibbs from Ephesians 2:11-22 on Friday, July 10, 2015
By Jeff Gibbs I say to my students with some regularity, “Careful exegesis often makes the text harder to preach.” What I mean, of course, is that the concerns of a particular text of Scripture might not, at first glance, be the sorts of things that concern a Christian/Lutheran congregation in twenty-first-century North America. When this is the ..
by Wally Becker We are saved by God’s grace, through faith in Christ Jesus, for the purpose of living as God’s people to this world which he loves (Jn 3:16). This passage gives us a picture of “the two kinds of righteousness.” The first portion of the text focuses on the grace of God: dead in sin, ..
By Jeff Thormodson The seven verses just preceding our text describe a cultural milieu that seriously doubts the existence of God or a literal judgment day. This first century attitude fits the current context where “[many] see no tangible evidence of the Lord’s second coming and thus doubt its reality. As a result, they see no need for ..
By Francis C. Rossow Comments on the Text Lulled either by the familiarity of our text or by its complex sentence structure, we may not at first be aware of the surprise—even the shock—it contains. Verse 6 drops a bomb: “This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members ..
Chapel Sermon by Peter Meier from Ephesians 2:1-10 on Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Ephesians 2:1-10 11th Sunday after Trinity, One Year Series. Paul encourages us to walk in the ways of Christ for salvation
Chapel Sermon by Paul Philp from Ephesians 2:11-22 on Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Sola Fide and some really old guys
By David I. Lewis Literary Context Today’s Gospel is the first of a series of three lessons taken from the so called “Bread of Life Discourse” of John 6:22-71. Here Jesus engages in an extended dialogue first with the crowd (6:25-59) and then with his disciples (6:60-71). At several points, this dialogue shifts to monologue/short ..
By Anthony Cook, Textual Comments: In the section of Romans preceding this text (6:12-23), Paul illustrates our relationship with God as both instruments and slaves of righteousness, but in this section, the opening illustration is that of marriage. In the same way that a bride is bound to her husband until death, so too we are ..