Time for Holy Ghost Party!
From the pancake church people: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=453-Gnyr-1Q
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Teetering on the edge of insanity, Edvard Munch painted his most famous work The Scream of Nature, later known simply as The Scream. The Scream sold this past week for nearly $120,000,000, becoming the...
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Luther on Rachel’s trial of envy regarding her sister Leah’s fertility (Gen. 30:1): He who is tried by doubt experiences an ineffable sighing by which he wishes that he were not troubled by doubt. Yet...
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How much of your life is spent in fear? We know people with phobias, sometimes crippling. Perhaps you have one that you’ve had to battle – or maybe never conquered. Fear of insects, spiders or wasps;...
View ArticleSermo Dei: The Vigil of Pentecost 2013
Your birth from below says that you are a child of Adam, therefore a child of wrath, a child of hell. Your birth from above says that you you are a child of God. For “The Spirit Himself bears witness...
View ArticleBaptism as recreation
The dove hovers over Jesus and abides upon Him (Mt. 3:13-17), as the Spirit once brooded over creation waters in the beginning (Gen. 1:1-3). Jesus is new creation. In Him, Baptism becomes Genesis all...
View ArticleThe role of works in the last judgment
Jesus clearly speaks about a salvation based upon works (e.g., Mt. 25). How can we reconcile this with the clear statements of Scripture that attribute salvation to the grace of God? Matthew Levering...
View ArticleBaccalaureate Vespers 2014
Baccalaureate Vespers Wednesday before Pentecost John 14:15-21 June 4, 2014 Zeitgeist oder Heilige Geist? Das ist die Frage. (Translation: The spirit of the times, or the Holy Spirit? That is the...
View ArticleSermo Dei: Pentecost 2014
Today, dearly beloved, is Pentecost, the day we celebrate the gift of the Holy Spirit, on the fiftieth day from the resurrection of Jesus. Nebulous abstractions and emotions often accompany talk of the...
View ArticleSermo Dei: Pentecost 2015
Pentecost presents an event that seems too fantastic to believe. Tongues of fire? People speaking in foreign languages they never learned? This follows other events that seem equally not believable: A...
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