volume 41
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Lent 1 • James 1:12–18 • February 22, 2015
We need to let James be James. We ought not try to make him sound like Paul, or John, or Peter, or anyone else.
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Proper 14 • Ephesians 4:17–5:2
This pericope is typical of the latter portion of Paul’s letters, that is, it deals with everyday matters of the Christian life
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Pentecost • Acts 2:1–21 • May 24, 2015
The gift of the resurrection comes to fruition in the Gentile Pentecost as peoples of all the nations die and rise in the baptismal bath…
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“I Make These Confessions My Own” Lutheran Confessional Subscription in the Twenty-first Century Robert Kolb and Charles P. Arand
The spirit of Augsburg and the method of the Wittenberg theologians carry the content of the Lutheran confessional documents into the many societies and cultures…
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Faithful Witness in Work and Rest
Faithful Christian witness in work starts with the value of the work itself, in its own right, not as a means to some other end…
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Proper 19 • James 3:1–12
Christians are absolutely forbidden to speak evil of other people—even if what they say is technically “true.”
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THE NEW SHAPE OF WORLD CHRISTIANITY: How American Experience Reflects Global Faith. By Mark A. Noll
Noll proposes that North American Christianity molded, and is related to, worldwide Christianity via an amalgamation of missionary influence, evangelical attitudes, and shared historical contexts.
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Proper 17 • Ephesians 6:10–20
The armor these soldiers are wearing is not gained by their own merit, but spiritual gifts they are blessed with.
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Lent 3 • 1 Corinthians 1:18–31 • March 8, 2015 The Word of the Cross
The preacher has the wonderful opportunity in this text to invite his hearers to respond to Christ by believing the word of the cross and…