Practical Theology
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Epiphany 3 • 1 Corinthians 7:29–31 (32–35) • January 25, 2015
Instead, what Paul wants to foster among us today is a conversation about life in Christ and how our joys and our sorrows, our buying…
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BEFORE NATURE: A Christian Spiritual Paul Santmire
Throughout the book Santmire ties his and the reader’s spiritual journey together with what he calls the “the Trinity Prayer.”
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Christ Coming To Us Luther’s Rhetoric of Location
Christ comes to a people and a place through the proclamation of God’s word.
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Engaging Our Culture Faithfully
If the problem we face is not the secularization of society but the secularization of the church brought about by importing expressive individualism into the…
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Advent 4 • Romans 16:25–27 • December 21, 2014
On the final Sunday of Advent, just a few days before the glorious celebration of Christmas, these three verses at the end of the Epistle…
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Proper 27 • Amos 5:18–24 • November 9, 2014
Through Amos, Yahweh roars judgment to the neighboring kingdoms around Judah and Israel.
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Christmas 1 • Galatians 4:4–7 • December 28, 2014
This is what the family of God looks like when adopted by our Abba Father because of the Christmas gift named Jesus, and the Holy…
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BLOOD AND LIFE: Sermons on the Old Testament By Michael Kasting
Kasting’s sermons do more than delight—they are “the power of God for our salvation.” I sometimes quip to my homiletics students, “Anyone can write an…
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Advent 1 • 1 Corinthians 1:3–9 • November 30, 2014
The church becomes that vessel of incarnate grace where we are saturated in baptismal living waters that have claimed, redeemed, and forgiven us.