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Arand and Herrmann, Living in the Promises and Place of God

Browse the interactive version above, download here as a pdf, or purchase print copies at the online store. This Concordia Pages explores how locating the story of salvation within the broader, biblical story of creation impacts our witness in the world. In particular, it considers how being placed alongside our fellow creatures as recipients of ..

Jeffrey Gibbs, “Christ is Risen, Indeed”

Browse the interactive version above, download here as a pdf, or purchase print copies at the online store. About “Christ Is Risen, Indeed: Good News for Him and for Us,” Jeff Gibbs writes: Good Friday and Easter (along with Ascension and Pentecost) go together, one event, in a sense. Different New Testament texts invite us ..

The Pulpit

Ascension · Luke 24:44-53 · May 21, 2009

By Kent Burreson A Journey for the Ages This homiletical help provides reflections on central themes for the Ascension in light of the liturgical context and hymnography for the feast. The Gospel reading for the Ascension of Our Lord is the Lukan account of Jesus’ final teaching and his return to his Father. It is ..

The Pulpit

Ascension · Ephesians 1:15-23 · May 1, 2008

By Charles P. Arand, “There’s A New Lord in Town” Ascension Day is included as one of the milestone events in the grand narrative of the Gospel as set forth by the Apostles and Nicene Creeds. And yet, it doesn’t seem to receive its due among Lutherans. Is it decreasing in importance? Ascension Day seems to ..

Arand and Herrmann, Living in the Promises and Place of God

ICYMI: The Rites of Faith Formation

Jeffrey Gibbs, “Christ is Risen, Indeed”

Ascension · Luke 24:44-53 · May 21, 2009

Ascension · Luke 24:44-53 · May 21, 2009

Ascension · Ephesians 1:15-23 · May 1, 2008

Ascension · Ephesians 1:15-23 · May 1, 2008

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