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Smart Ass
By now you no doubt have seen the video of the Vice President of the United States calling the manager of a yogurt shop a smart ass. If you haven’t, click here. Don’t read the article yet, just watch the video. Imagine that you’re in Mr. Biden’s shoes for a minute. You are constantly assaulted…
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Section 2: Judgment–Tearing Down Mansions
This is the second of a tw0-part series covering David Rudel’s Who Really Goes To Hell?—The Gospel You’ve Never Heard. Rudel looks at how Scripture (The Bible) and our understanding of GOD’s purpose and of Jesus (The Gospel) intersect and where they diverge. My introduction can be found here and Section 1 is here. In…
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Section 1: Questing—Seeking and Finding
This is the first of a three-part series covering David Rudel’s Who Really Goes To Hell?—The Gospel You’ve Never Heard. Rudel looks at how Scripture (The Bible) and our understanding of GOD’s purpose and of Jesus (The Gospel) intersect and where they diverge. My introduction can be found here. We often take it as a…
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The Gospel You’ve Never Heard
I’ve just started reading Who Really Goes to Hell–The Gospel You’ve Never Heard: What a Protestant Bible written by Jews says about God’s work through Christ by David I. Rudel. An intriguing title in itself but the caption underneath it made me all the more interested: “(A book for those in the church and those…
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Saturday
I played around with the idea of leaving a blank post. Get it? Absence…I decided that doing that would be perhaps a little too cryptic/existentialist. Yesterday we dealt with one of the problems of Good Friday, the day God died. The day we remember the tragedy and triumph of Jesus’s death by crucifixion. This happens…
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the god of great joy
My St. Patrick’s Day sermon at our Lenten ecumenical community worship service.