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When I began my ministry in the early 1960s everyone was talking about Eugene Carson Blake’s proposal for uniting the Church. He urged mainline Protestants to unify before they began trying to reconcile their theological differences. His point was once we obeyed the New Testament call for one Body in Christ, we would become family [...]
Finding myself on vacation, I plan to be more anecdotal in the next couple weeks. Well, perhaps it has to do with more than my vacation. I think we have come to where we truly live our lives. That means speaking of experience more than theology. When I want to check whether an inspiration is [...]
LESSON 26 HOW DOES GOD OPERATE?
20 Apr 2010I can best explain my position on suffering by enclosing below a short paper I wrote decades ago to start discussion at a Lutheran conference. I think the Christian faith is contrarian by nature. We have some trouble seeing that, because it is so closely aligned with Northern American society. Most of the time I [...]
LESSON 14 INCARNATION
22 Dec 2009Christmas 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, and omniscient. But incarnation proclaims Immanuel, God as human dwelling among us. (John 1: 14) [...]
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- bob nordvall: Speaking Electronically If any further proof were needed of the new electronic age, it came last [...]
- Fritz Foltz: Lupe sent the following email that I think is helpful: This week you raised a very interesting issue [...]
- bob nordvall: Between communion and the potluck church supper Fritz proposes making conversation at the meal to [...]
- bob nordvall: In a country with a state established church, that church is less dependent upon the will and contri [...]
- jmaldon: Pastor Fritz has pointed in the past that charismatic preachers claim reliving the primitive church. [...]
- LESSON 46 CONVERSATION IN THE COMMUNITY
- LESSON 45 GOD’S WORD IS SPOKEN
- LESSON 44 Conversation as Discernment
- LESSON 43 CONVERSATION AS DISCERNMENT
- LESSON 42 HOW WE DETERMINE GOD’S WORD- COMMUNITY IV
- LESSON 41 HOW WE DETERMINE GOD’S WORD-COMMUNITY III
- LESSON 40 HOW WE DETERMINE GOD’S WORD- COMMUNITY II
- LESSON 39 HOW WE DETERMINE GOD’S WORD- COMMUNITY I
- LESSON 38 HOW WE DETERMINE THE WORD OF GOD- CLERGY
- LESSON 37 HOW DO WE DETERMINE GOD- CEREMONY