Aretha Franklin: Gospel Preacher
August 16, the world lost one of the great preachers of the gospel.
Getting Saved
Is our gospel really the good news of Jesus?
The Episcopal Church and Liberty
The gospel of Christ offers a greater vision of liberty than resorting to defining ourselves. The gospel rests on the promise that God, who on the sixth day spoke us into being, beheld us, and called us very good.
The Gospel and the Works of God
In Acts 15, St. James and the Jerusalem Council take for granted that Gentile Christians will do just this: follow the commands of God.
‘Say it with your chest’: Proclaiming the supremacy of Christ in the face of white supremacy
God’s love calls us out from our biases, sins, and prejudices into the beloved community whose unity testifies to God’s desire to reconcile the world to himself through his Son.
A practical question on law/gospel
Grace underlines all of what we do in school, but it is always a grace that assumes action and discipline.
500 years after Luther, the law/gospel insight remains almost true
Luther's understanding of the gospel has a tremendous liberating appeal, but also grave hermeneutical consequences.
Sons of Anarchy and the absence of grace
Sons of Anarchy is first and foremost a show about what it is like to live in a world without grace, a world where the law reigns and the Gospel is in short supply.