Fritz a wonderful lesson – and esp. reading has a flow I found encompassing. If only …….. yes we can…
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Tag: incarnation
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Lesson 5: Is Jesus Special? How?
Read MORE: Lesson 5: Is Jesus Special? How?Creeds are not complete statements of what we believe. For the most part, they state positions the Church has taken on controversial issues. You see that easily when you examine the second article. It skips from Jesus’ birth to his…
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Lesson 9: Incarnation
Read MORE: Lesson 9: IncarnationAfter looking at the creation stories where Nature is declared “good,” then Visions of Hope where redemption includes the restoration of the proper relationship between God, humans, and Nature, and Torah Law that describes how we should be treating Nature;…
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Lesson 3: Resurrection of the Body
Read MORE: Lesson 3: Resurrection of the BodyEach Sunday many of us profess we believe in the resurrection of the body. We assert Jesus was resurrected in body as well as spirit. He ate with his friends, allowed them to touch him, and showed them the marks…
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Lesson 18: What Does God Look Like?
Read MORE: Lesson 18: What Does God Look Like?When the senior suggested we discuss “What does God look like? What did Jesus look like?” at our next meeting, my first thought was, “This is silly” Then I realized the question probably hid some much deeper concerns. I sent…
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Lesson 14: Incarnation
Read MORE: Lesson 14: IncarnationChristmas forces us to repent, to rethink all our assumptions about God. We naturally think a god must be completely separate from and absolutely superior to us in all ways. A god is to be a perfect being, omnipresent, omnipotent,…
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Lesson 2: Creation in the New Testament
Read MORE: Lesson 2: Creation in the New TestamentIf you think of creation only as the origin of the physical world, the New Testament has little to say about it. It does speak quite a bit about a broader concept of creation. It builds on the Old Testament’s…
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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!