Tag: salvation

  • A Salvation Sing-Along

    A Salvation Sing-Along

    In the presentation of Jesus at the Temple, we may be drawn to a vision of salvation that is more metaphor than real, present, alive.

  • God is not in the condemnation business

    God is not in the condemnation business

    For SundayThe Fourth Sunday of Lent Collect Gracious Father, whose blessed Son Jesus Christ came down from heaven to be the true bread which gives life to the world: Evermore give us this bread, that he may live in us, and we in him; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one…

  • Echoes of Fear and Salvation

    Echoes of Fear and Salvation

    Three thousand years ago, an unremarkable boy grew into a remarkable king. He was a shepherd and musician, smaller than his brothers. And yet this boy took down Goliath, survived persecution from the first King of Judah, and he became the great king to unite the divided kingdoms. Two hundred years later, they’re divided again and it’s…

  • Is Jesus the only way to God?

    Is Jesus the only way to God?

    It’s funny that this one choice we make may be the single biggest divider of them all. Is Jesus the only way to God? Well, watch your step. Most of our questions about the nature of God, Jesus, and their relationship exist in multiple dimensions of analysis. Like in seminary, when I would sit in…

  • Bible

    Bible

    I remember a point in my life, not a precise moment, but a time period, in which I realized that the Bible had a lot more in there than I had learned in Sunday School. I was probably 10. We were talking about Samson and his super powers and his kryptonite magic hair and I…

  • Come to the Light

    Is John 3 about salvation, or something more? And is it a sufficient description of Christian faith?