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Weekly lessons in theology and public life • Since 2011
Tag: body of Christ
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Lesson 24: Getting Real
Read MORE: Lesson 24: Getting RealLast week I wrote that a proper understanding of faith, hope, and love provides a common story for the Church by acknowledging our real life connections to community, nature, time, and place. I quickly got a marvelous critique from Lupe…
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Lesson 15: New Christian Communities
Read MORE: Lesson 15: New Christian CommunitiesI promised to share some of my friends’ understanding of modern Christian community. Kerry Walters is a retired philosophy professor whose words often appear in the Huffington Post. I think his following Facebook post speaks for itself. I’d be interested…
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Lesson 2: Sacrament as God’s Bodily Presence
Read MORE: Lesson 2: Sacrament as God’s Bodily PresenceThe sacraments remind us that Christians claim that God is more than spirit. Although most of us can remember having defined God as a spirit at various times, the Church has insisted God is a person. And we all know…
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Lesson 9: Alive In The Spirit
Read MORE: Lesson 9: Alive In The SpiritChristians believe the Risen Christ is still among us. The Creed lists several ways this takes place in its third article that describes the work of the Holy Spirit. Whereas the Old Testament claims that Spirit filled certain leaders, the…
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Lesson 19: What a Johannine Church Looks Like
Read MORE: Lesson 19: What a Johannine Church Looks LikeWe always hear we need authority in order to keep unity in the Church. Those making the claim usually mean they have the proper theology to which everyone else must conform. However, this kind of authority has done little to…
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Lesson 8: Nurturing Community
Read MORE: Lesson 8: Nurturing CommunityLet’s resume examining Practical Christianity, that part of the Christian life that does not necessarily involve the supernatural. In my ministry, I found many people came to church or sent their children, not because they wanted to worship, but because…
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Lesson 7: Community
Read MORE: Lesson 7: CommunityThe third practical way Christianity offers for overcoming suffering and evil is a loving, sharing community. Lupe observed suffering can be made “less terrifying when families envelop each other in love.” Certainly the New Testament sees this extending beyond the…
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Lesson 39: How Do We Determine God’s Word – Community 1
Read MORE: Lesson 39: How Do We Determine God’s Word – Community 1Finding myself on vacation, I plan to be more anecdotal in the next couple weeks. Well, perhaps it has to do with more than my vacation. I think we have come to where we truly live our lives. That means…
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Lesson 26: How Does God Operate?
Read MORE: Lesson 26: How Does God Operate?I can best explain my position on suffering by enclosing below a short paper I wrote decades ago to start discussion at a Lutheran conference. I think the Christian faith is contrarian by nature. We have some trouble seeing that,…
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Lesson 11: Community – Love
Read MORE: Lesson 11: Community – LoveLet me build on the very, very fine discussion taking place in “Comments”. Juan laid the foundation observing that our lifestyle gives witness to the God of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Bob suggested that lifestyle is necessarily divided into worship and…
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So forgiveness pre-requires understanding the mistakes of the past? here hear re this opposing this me-first, America-first, white-first, male-first approach>…
An extremely timely topic. Thanks, Fritz!