Fritz a wonderful lesson – and esp. reading has a flow I found encompassing. If only …….. yes we can…
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Tag: hope
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What Does the Future Hold?
Read MORE: What Does the Future Hold?This is a paper I offered to the Adams County Torch Club on December 15. It prompted a lot of discussion. I found myself reminding people several times, “Now remember I am a Christian.” I have a feeling we shall…
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Lesson 8: Sabbath as Promise, Not Just Memory
Read MORE: Lesson 8: Sabbath as Promise, Not Just MemoryAs I noted in the sixth lesson, most of us believe a primary element in a modern Sabbath life style would be worship in a Christian community once a week. At that time, I focused on “remembering” the stories from…
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Lesson 16: Paul’s Christian Ethics
Read MORE: Lesson 16: Paul’s Christian EthicsBob, Rita, and Derek all observed we do not base our lives entirely on what Jesus said in the Gospels, because we are sinners and live in a sinful world. From the very beginning, Christians understood this. They struggled with…
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Lesson 30: How Does God Operate Through Words? Part 4
Read MORE: Lesson 30: How Does God Operate Through Words? Part 4Bob suggests we’ll always have false prophets, because we’ll always have people looking for religious interpretations that support their preconceived ideas and prejudices. I think we are bound to have more, because of the way modern media uses words. We…
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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: Hope 2
Read MORE: Lesson 11: Hope 2Bob’s comment makes a wonderful summary: “The nexus between faith, love, and hope is exemplified by the phrase “what we will be has not yet been revealed.” It is not fully spelled out, but our faith assures us that we…
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Lesson 10: Hope 1
Read MORE: Lesson 10: Hope 1Let’s take a look at “hope” as we continue our study of the triad used to describe the Christian life. For what do we hope? A quick word search finds the object of Christian hope is usually our own resurrections…
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Lesson 3: Dynamic Interaction
Read MORE: Lesson 3: Dynamic InteractionBob has entered the discussion again with his usual critical thought, forcing me to clarify my ideas. He wrote, “I think there is a strong argument that faith, hope, and love endure as constant beacons for the Christian life. Yet…
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Lesson 2: Past, Present, and Future
Read MORE: Lesson 2: Past, Present, and FutureLast week I tried to make the case for faith, hope, and love being a very careful choice for summarizing the Christian life. I’d like to take a few weeks to examine the features that make the triad so important.…
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Lesson 1: Faith, Hope, and Love
Read MORE: Lesson 1: Faith, Hope, and LoveFor two thousand years theologians have used the words “faith, hope, and love” to summarize the Christian message. It all began with Paul who said in Colossians 1: 4-6 that the triad is the “Gospel” and the “Word of Truth”.…
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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!