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Symposium 2021: Discover Beauty in Everyone

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Symposium 2021: All These Things

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Symposium 2021: Groaning and Working for the Good

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Symposium 2021: Eager Expectations

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Symposium 2021: Children of God

A well-known American theologian named Dale Bruner wrote a book about the Holy Spirit several years ago, and he titled his book The Holy Spirit: The Shy Member of the Trinity. In his book Dr. Bruner shows how often the Holy Spirit works silently behind the scenes, rarely pointing to himself but always pointing the…

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Symposium 2021: The Realm of the Spirit

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Symposium 2021: No Condemnation

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Romans 16:25-27

Advent 4B

I suspect that were Romans 16’s proclaimers to ask our hearers which of the Bible’s books are the most “theological,” at least some of them would answer “Romans.” Its themes of human sinfulness, righteousness from God and the need for appropriate responses to God’s grace run throughout this letter. Romans is also Paul’s letter that…

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Romans 14:1-12

Proper 19A

Americans live in a “me first” culture that would rather talk about our rights than our responsibilities. We like to sometimes loudly assert our right to privacy, our right to choose, our right to bear arms and even our right to cheer for the New York Yankees. After all, doesn’t Americans’ secular Holy Grail, the…

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Romans 13:8-14

Proper 18A

I’ve always assumed the best work gets done under the pressure of a looming deadline. So I seldom felt the urgency of getting to work on school projects until very shortly before they were due. While I was attending seminary, for example, I waited until the last moment to write a major exegetical paper. I…

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