On the problem of evil and the glory of God.
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Episcopal Church Marriages Plunge by Two Thirds
Wonder if any ELCAers have buyer’s remorse, having bought into Called to Common Mission in 1999. This agreement with the Episcopal Church required the ELCA to change its constitution and gradually adopt an Episcopal structure. After all, sacramental bishops, priests, and deacons require miters, pectoral crosses, stoles, ceremonies, rules, and regulations that show their special powers and distinguish their ranks. Worry about marriage and the family? Why bother? And yet, who will pay for all the clergy?
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Life in a Wholly New Dimension: Rom 14:1-23 (sermon outline)
At the end of Romans 14 Paul sets the Christian life in a wholly new dimension: Rom 14:23b: “[F]or whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.” Not love, but faith is the wholly new dimension of the Christian life.
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From Conflict to Communion: Baptism and Original Sin
“The churches do, in fact, fiercely disagree with each other on practically any important point of baptismal theology. What really leaps to the eye is not unity but disunity in the area of baptism.” Peder Nørgaard-Højen
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