When I’m ever with friends of a different denomination (which in this part of the country is pretty often), and the conversation turns to religion, and, since I’m in the minority and it often makes my friends feel bad for me, I usually will say something like, “Well, you know,...
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth…” (Genesis 1:1) We’ve talked much lately about God’s three persons (the Trinity). We always think of the first person being that of the Father, and the Father is the creator of all things-seen and unseen. There used to be a...
There appears one place in scripture where one can set oneself towards damnation. The above mentioned Bible passage suggests that if one blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, then one is condemned of an eternal sin, suggesting a life forever to hell! Everyone in Nazareth, his family included, thought that the...
Holy Trinity Sunday – June 3, 2012 People get confused. Yes, even Christian people who believe in the Holy Trinity get confused. I suppose that Unitarians naturally don’t have this problem, explaining how God can be One God but three Persons. As I like to say, “To explain the name...
(Read Acts 2:1-21) It was Sunday, June 7, 1981. It was the morning service there at the church. It was at my home congregation of Memorial Evangelical Lutheran Church in Nashville Tennessee. I had been asked to be the reader for the day. I was proud to do it, until...
“…and they cast lots…” (Acts 1:26a) “Was it luck of the draw?” There was a vacancy. With Judas’ untimely death, there was an opening on the list of twelve men to carry on the work of Jesus Christ. As Luke tells us in Acts, chapter 1, the group had narrowed...
When one thinks of Jesus Christ, we tend to think of Him as Lord of Lords and King of Kings, and rightly so! He is the true Son of God -King of the Universe! That seems to put Him in a totally different category from all other human beings,...
The quote here is from the brilliant and wonderful story about Philip and a man from Ethiopia who have a conversation about the understanding of God’s work in the world. Philip does a great job in pointing to Jesus as the center of all that needs to be understood...
