incarnational theology
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God loves you anyway
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6 min read
Jesus talking about love in the midst of crisis is always relevant. Jesus saying each other is the way to know God is even more so.
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We are the Medium
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9 min read
The message of Pentecost is about the power of God. But that doesn’t mean what we normally think it means because God’s power isn’t over us, it’s power with us. In Pentecost, both the medium and the message matter Pentecost | Acts 2:1-21 I don’t know if you heard, but there was a big wedding…
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Is God All Up In Our Business?
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5 min read
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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Christian Love is Pornographic
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3 min read
AMERICAN CHRISTIAN PORN STARS or Christian Love is Pornographic We appeal to tradition but Sola Scriptura. We appeal to history but not institutions. We appeal to clear readings but not readings which are clear to me. We appeal to Jesus but not his followers. We appeal to creation but not the world. We appeal to…
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So Let Me Get This Straight
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8 min read
These first Followers of the Way kept telling the story. They seemed to know that the story was important. That the story was what they were to share. Story, Trinity, and living our theology Trinity Sunday | John 16: 12-15 I recently remarked that there are two days I don’t like preaching: Christ the…
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Jesus and the Heart of the Matter
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6 min read
The power of the Christmas story can be seen in what it drives us to do, where it drives us to go, who it drives us to become. The Inbreaking GOD and the hope of the world Christmas Day | John 1:1-14 [bctt tweet=”For the light is not alone, the light is not a…