How Does Jesus Save Us: Satisfaction
The Satisfaction or Substitutionary theory of the atonement is what many Christians take to be the only understanding. It’s the perspective you hear before altar calls or read in religious tracts. This...
View ArticleSermon Shout Out from Scot McKnight: Wrath Reconsidered
Scot Mcknight has this up over at his Jesus Creed site. This week Dennis continues our sermon series through Romans by looking at Romans 1.18-32 in which lists the symptoms of a creation suffering...
View ArticleTop Ten Heresies and Remedies for Them: #5
Heresy = Beliefs considered anathema by the ecumenical councils of the Christian Church If Orthodoxy = ‘right praise’ then heresy = ‘wrong praise.’ *Leviticus 10: wrong praise = a very big deal If...
View ArticleDo We Idolize God’s Wrath?
This weekend I’ll continue the Lenten sermon series, 7 Deadlies and the 7 Ways Jesus Saves Us, with a brief homily on anger. Wrath. In the tradition, each of the capital vices is thought to have a...
View ArticleWhy It Makes No Sense to Say ‘God Forgives You’
Deadly Sins and Atonement Theories are both on my mind and on the preaching docket this Lent. This weekend I’ll have limited preaching time due to our Worship Through Service event, but I hope to give...
View ArticleGrace and Justice
For the sermon this Sunday, I sat down with my good friend and congregant, Brian Stolarz, and the innocent man he got off of death row, Alfred Dewayne Brown. Dewayne is only the 13th exonoree from the...
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