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Lesson 5: The Gospel According to Matthew
Read MORE: Lesson 5: The Gospel According to MatthewIf you only read Mark, you would think that the Gospel is primarily about God purifying his creation. That’s good news for people who unjustly suffer. However, from this perspective, it is easy to think God is a judge whose…
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Lesson 4: The Gospel According to Mark
Read MORE: Lesson 4: The Gospel According to MarkI set out to examine what a community built around the Gospel would be like in our time and place. It made sense to begin by defining what the Gospel is. Last week I looked at Paul’s description. This week…
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Lesson 3: The Gospel According to Paul
Read MORE: Lesson 3: The Gospel According to PaulI’ve been messing around for days trying to come up with an academic key to what Paul means by the Gospel. I tried all the usual ones, like our Lutheran understanding that he is all about justification by faith. Each…
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Lesson 2: The Gospel
Read MORE: Lesson 2: The GospelThe Gospel is like the breath we Christians draw into our bodies. It gives us life. It permeates everything we do, every decision we make, every word we speak. Yet, it is difficult to grasp. I am writing this series…
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Lesson 1: The Gospel Community
Read MORE: Lesson 1: The Gospel CommunityThere has always been some controversy about the nature of the church. When I entered the ministry about 60 years ago, an Evangelical pastor friend of mine described the controversy as a tension between those who see the mission as…
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Lesson 14: Trust
Read MORE: Lesson 14: TrustI decided to do this series when so many of my friends were in a quandary about talking to people on the other side of our deep cultural divide. Many could find no way to have decent conversations with lifetime…
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Lesson 13: Gay or Straight
Read MORE: Lesson 13: Gay or StraightI was the kind of pastor with whom people shared their inner, often hidden lives. Early on, I became aware that almost everyone struggles with sexual issues in one way or another. I also came to realize people’s public personas…
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Lesson 13: Black Lives Matter or All Lives Matter
Read MORE: Lesson 13: Black Lives Matter or All Lives MatterI think I have been resisting this lesson. Being very active in the civil rights movement most of my life and raising a Haitian son, I was afraid I was too emotionally involved to trust my understanding of what is…
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Lesson 12: Racism and Sexuality
Read MORE: Lesson 12: Racism and SexualityIt made sense, even though it shook me up, when James Davison Hunter observed race has replaced abortion as the great divider since he wrote Cultural Wars in 1991. It rings true because the media daily reports efforts to support…
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Lesson 11: Responses to the Abortion Lesson
Read MORE: Lesson 11: Responses to the Abortion LessonMy attempt to come up with some guidelines for moving beyond the abortion stalemate did not work very well. I received three kinds of responses. The first felt my effort to be carefully neutral ended up being irrelevant. Lupe, who…
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An extremely timely topic. Thanks, Fritz!
yes we need to forgive our leaders yet make sure they do the right thing – which they aren’t.