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Showing posts with label American Baptist Churches. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American Baptist Churches. Show all posts
Friday, February 4, 2022

Did God answer Jesus' prayer for Unity among his followers? - John 17

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  A memento for the once dominant multi-clergy trivia team created by my wife Nicole (our one non-clergy member on the team,  but representi...
Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Is it my job to police the communion line?

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  The meme above has been bouncing around social media as a response to a recent vote (168 to 55,  Abortion rights: US Catholic bishops face...
Thursday, March 5, 2020

Timeless truths in Karl Barth's Barmen Declaration, written against the Nazi dominated Evangelical Church in Germany

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Written in 1934, the  Theological Declaration of Barmen  was the response of the Confessional Church, those Christians who had left the of...
Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Sermon Video: Women should be silent? 1 Corinthians 14:29-35

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As the Apostle Paul continues to explain the need for peace, not disorder, in the Church, he emphasizes that when the Word of God is shared,...
Friday, September 13, 2019

Sexist Gospels? Another reminder that Inspiration and Inerrancy matter

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In a recent essay entitled,  Toward non-gendered language for God , that was published in The Christian Citizen, which is a publication of t...
Thursday, May 23, 2019

Why the American Baptist Churches won't split apart over homosexuality or abortion

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As the Culture War rages on in America with no end in sight, resulting in animosity and deep divisions in the political sphere, as well as s...
Tuesday, April 17, 2018

The downside of being a part of an "independently minded" church/denomination

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If you haven't noticed already, I consider myself to be a student of history.  I would like to think that through incessant reading, on ...