providence

  • Divine Suffering

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    Jesus is led into the wilderness to be tempted. Tempted with power, understanding, everything he could desire. Everything we desire.

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  • Is God All Up In Our Business?

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    When you have a person in your office hysterical because their son completed suicide and they are worried about where they’re going or the most pious lifelong Christian worries on his deathbed that he hasn’t done enough to please God or some of the most generous people you’ve met in your life can’t have a…

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  • Dude, Where’s My God?

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    It is far easier to find God at work in our history than in our present. There God is all pulling the strings and making things happen. Here? Well, that depends on your theological proclivities. Our theologies have grown out of problems and the choices we make in response to them. Much like we’re doing…

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  • How Has God Been Active in the World?

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    If we want to know who God is, one important place to go is to look at who God has been. Much like we think back on our childhood and reflect on our sibling relationships and how our parents treated us. Looking back is an important window at understanding who we are now. Of all…

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  • Man, Have You Got the Wrong Idea

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    a Sermon for Lent 3C Text: Luke 13:1-9     No link Jesus raises a question about providence this morning. A question about GOD. About good and evil. About the way of the world. He tackles what is perhaps the most enduring question in human history: why do bad things happen? And yet, before tackling…

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