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Tag: salvation
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Lesson 2: Overcoming Suffering
Read MORE: Lesson 2: Overcoming SufferingThe course will look at some of the components of Practical Christianity, sometimes described as the art of Christian living. It will begin examining how Christianity offers a way to overcome suffering, whether this is from natural disaster, social injustice,…
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Lesson 5: Sin in the Mosaic Law
Read MORE: Lesson 5: Sin in the Mosaic LawThe Mosaic Law found in the Torah, the first five books our Bible, spells out in some detail what it is to live as God wills. The First Commandment, “Love your God with all your heart, mind, and soul (Exodus…
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Lesson 15: Summary of Salvation
Read MORE: Lesson 15: Summary of SalvationLooking back over all the biblical pictures of salvation, you find many similarities. For one, they are primarily about healing what is rather than escaping from this world. They reflect our craving for something better than our society’s suffering. In…
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Lesson 14: What Buddhism Teaches Christians About Salvation
Read MORE: Lesson 14: What Buddhism Teaches Christians About SalvationA couple of my face- to- face fall classes used Kristen Largen’s What Christians Can Learn from Buddhism: Rethinking Salvation. In her last chapter she suggests four challenges Buddhism offers to our popular Christian picture of salvation. In many ways,…
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Lesson 13: Salvation as a Wedding Feast
Read MORE: Lesson 13: Salvation as a Wedding FeastAlthough Jesus did not offer a comprehensive picture of salvation, he often referred to it as a dinner. Quite a few times his parables proclaimed the Kingdom of God is something like a meal or a banquet. Almost all his…
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Lesson 12: Christmas Story as Salvation
Read MORE: Lesson 12: Christmas Story as SalvationI think “The Peaceable Kingdom” and “The New Jerusalem” might be the only detailed pictures of salvation in the Bible. Most of our conceptions have been pieced together from short illustrations. The Christmas Story is a perfect example. Matthew’s and…
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Lesson 10: Return to Paradise
Read MORE: Lesson 10: Return to ParadiseMany, if not most, pictures of salvation are very general, enabling us to fill them with our own ideas. I am thinking of salvation as God’s will being done. Scholars sometime speak of this as “whatever it is when God…
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Lesson 9: What About Hell?
Read MORE: Lesson 9: What About Hell?Bob reminds us we can not get way without saying something about hell. As you consider the most typical idea of salvation– a trip on the up escalator rather than on the down one — you face a problem. How…
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Lesson 8: The Right Question About Salvation
Read MORE: Lesson 8: The Right Question About SalvationAmericans are obsessed with “What must I do to be saved?” I think that is the wrong question. When we ask it, we are very much like the rich young man in Mark 10: 17-28, and Jesus’ response to him…
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Lesson 7: Saved from What?
Read MORE: Lesson 7: Saved from What?I’ve put aside my original outline and am following Bob’s advice to examine Lupe’s points one at a time. She suggested we might do well asking from what we are being saved and observed that traditional answers fall short. Let…
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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!