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Being a Discerning Christian in the Information Age (Or, What to Do When You’re Forwarded That Email)

Posted on August 18, 2016 by

We all get those emails, forwarded to us by a concerned friend or family member. Or we see the posts as we scroll through our Facebook feed. Or we hear the reports in the coffee shop, passed along in solemn tones. … Continue reading →

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Trust in God, Love One Another

Posted on June 29, 2016 by

One of my parishioners in a former church used to say that preachers really only have two or maybe three different sermons. “Every sermon they preach—doesn’t matter the text or the title—is really just a variation of one of those … Continue reading →

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“Confess and believe, and you will be saved!”

Posted on February 15, 2016 by

If you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For one believes with the heart and so is justified, and one confesses with … Continue reading →

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“We should re-think our theology? Say what?”

Posted on July 31, 2015 by

Earlier this summer I preached a sermon on grieving the losses in our lives, whether it’s the loss of someone we love through death or the loss of something we have invested with great significance—a relationship, a career, a home. … Continue reading →

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Love Is All We Need

Posted on June 1, 2015 by

Love is All We Need | Scripture and Jesus on Love | What is Love? Love, Above All | How Should We Then Love? We live in turbulent times. Everything is changing. Nothing seems certain any more. Our knowledge of the universe is growing … Continue reading →

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On Not Throwing the Theological Baby Out with the Bathwater

Posted on February 25, 2015 by

I’ve been reflecting recently on my faith journey, in particular on the “stuff I believe” side of things. I think that journey could be summed up this way: continually sifting through it all, sorting out the essentials, casting off the … Continue reading →

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Faith, Hope, and Love

Posted on November 20, 2013 by

Faith, hope, and love. “These three abide,” Paul says (1 Cor 13:13). They remain: they’re always there, they’re always needed. They are the trinity of Christian virtues, the triumvirate of Christian practices, the trivium of Christian ethics. Faith, hope, and … Continue reading →

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