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Who Is The Church?: An Ecclesiology For The Twenty-First Century. By Cheryl M. Peterson, Theodore Hopkins
Who Is The Church?: An Ecclesiology For The Twenty-First Century. By Cheryl M. Peterson, Theodore Hopkins
Concordia Journal
Peterson appropriates insights from communion ecclesiology, the missio Dei movement, and the Lutheran tradition, particularly Luther’s Large Catechism, in order to offer an account of the church’s identity for this time after Christendom.
Introducción A La Teología Mestiza De San Agustín. By Justo L. González, Alberto Garcia
Introducción A La Teología Mestiza De San Agustín. By Justo L. González, Alberto Garcia
Concordia Journal
In the introduction González defines and explains the hermeneutical key of “mestizaje” and situates Augustine within his own “mestizaje.”
A Christian In Toga: Boethius— Interpreter Of Antiquity And Christian Theologian. By Claudio Moreschini, Robert Kolb
A Christian In Toga: Boethius— Interpreter Of Antiquity And Christian Theologian. By Claudio Moreschini, Robert Kolb
Concordia Journal
How the world of thought fostered by Neoplatonists, pagan and Christian, was being integrated into theology by leading Christian thinkers of the early sixth century, among whom Boethius’s works have won him high standing.
Negotiating Identity: Exploring Tensions Between Being Hakka And Being Christian In Northwestern Taiwan, Henry Rowold
Negotiating Identity: Exploring Tensions Between Being Hakka And Being Christian In Northwestern Taiwan, Henry Rowold
Concordia Journal
Christofferson speaks of the Hakka people, he prefers more malleable descriptors such as “being Hakka” or “doing things in the Hakka way.” This, in turn, expresses the frustration Christofferson felt in his own ministry, working hard for fluency in the Hakka language, but discovering that not all of the Hakka he was speaking to were as comfortable in, or even loyal to, the ancestral language.
Proper 13 • Ephesians 4:1–16 • August 2, 2015, Richard Marrs
Proper 13 • Ephesians 4:1–16 • August 2, 2015, Richard Marrs
Concordia Journal
Just as your hands and your knees are gifts to you, gifts from God, so are the people around you gifts from God.
Proper 12 • Ephesians 3:14–21 • July 26, 2015, Benjamin Haupt
Proper 12 • Ephesians 3:14–21 • July 26, 2015, Benjamin Haupt
Concordia Journal
Paul is praying that the Ephesian Christians will be able to see the blueprints, so to speak, for the new church construction project, that is the building project of the church of God, the body of Christ.
1proper 11 • Ephesians 3:14–21 • July 26, 2015, Jeff Gibbs
1proper 11 • Ephesians 3:14–21 • July 26, 2015, Jeff Gibbs
Concordia Journal
The good news is that the Gentile believers now fully belong as household members (3:19) to the God of Israel, the Father of Jesus (Eph 1:3).
Proper 10 • Ephesians 1:3–16 • July 12, 2015, Timothy Dost
Proper 10 • Ephesians 1:3–16 • July 12, 2015, Timothy Dost
Concordia Journal
It is through the durability of these promises applied to us that we find both the faithfulness and strength to love our neighbors, marking us as those distinctive people God has chosen from the beginning.
Proper 9 • 2 Corinthians 12:1–10 • July 5, 2015 Exegetical Notes, Andrew Bartelt
Proper 9 • 2 Corinthians 12:1–10 • July 5, 2015 Exegetical Notes, Andrew Bartelt
Concordia Journal
Beyond conflict resolution lies a whole new way of defining reality, not by might or by power, or even by spiritual gifts or by healings, or by how God answered my prayer my way, but by the cross and resurrection.
Proper 8 • 2 Corinthians 8:1–9; 13–15 • June 28, 2015, Glenn Nielsen
Proper 8 • 2 Corinthians 8:1–9; 13–15 • June 28, 2015, Glenn Nielsen
Concordia Journal
In the sermon, besides the gospel motivation, appeals are made to the positive examples of other believers, and the call is to excel in generosity.
Proper 7 • 2 Corinthians 6:1–13 • June 21, 2015 Servants Of God As A Study In Contrasts, Joel Elowsky
Proper 7 • 2 Corinthians 6:1–13 • June 21, 2015 Servants Of God As A Study In Contrasts, Joel Elowsky
Concordia Journal
The one who was himself a study in contrasts, contradictions, and paradoxes asks no less of his servants and gives no less than his Spirit to make it happen.
Proper 6 • 2 Corinthians 5:1–10 (11–17) • June 14, 2015, Daniel Eggold
Proper 6 • 2 Corinthians 5:1–10 (11–17) • June 14, 2015, Daniel Eggold
Concordia Journal
This God-given, Spirit-driven longing to have our perishable bodies replaced by something permanent is evidence that full communion with the Father is possible through Jesus Christ who died for all.
Proper 5 • 2 Corinthians 4:13–5:1 • June 7, 2015, Michael Redeker
Proper 5 • 2 Corinthians 4:13–5:1 • June 7, 2015, Michael Redeker
Concordia Journal
Today’s epistle focuses on the Spirit as he works in the life of the believer to keep the Christian in the faith by giving a new set of glasses through which to live out life in dual realities.
Holy Trinity • Acts 2:14a, 22–36 • May 31, 2015, Erik Herrmann
Holy Trinity • Acts 2:14a, 22–36 • May 31, 2015, Erik Herrmann
Concordia Journal
For Peter, gifted now with the Holy Spirit, all that has taken place was promised long ago and has unfolded according to God’s “definite plan and foreknowledge.” In spite of all appearances, the death of Jesus does not negate the “mighty works, wonders and signs” of God.
Pentecost • Acts 2:1–21 • May 24, 2015, Kent Burreson
Pentecost • Acts 2:1–21 • May 24, 2015, Kent Burreson
Concordia Journal
The gift of the resurrection comes to fruition in the Gentile Pentecost as peoples of all the nations die and rise in the baptismal bath of the Holy Spirit.
Easter 7 • 1 John 5:9–15 • May 17, 2015 Testifying In The Courtroom, Leopoldo Sánchez
Easter 7 • 1 John 5:9–15 • May 17, 2015 Testifying In The Courtroom, Leopoldo Sánchez
Concordia Journal
In true Johannine fashion, the apostle offers us a contrast between two opposing principles at war with each other, namely, the way of the Son that leads to life and the way of the world that leads to death.
Homiletical Helps On Lsb Series B—Epistles Easter 6 • 1 John 5:1–8 • May 10, 2015, Thomas Egger
Homiletical Helps On Lsb Series B—Epistles Easter 6 • 1 John 5:1–8 • May 10, 2015, Thomas Egger
Concordia Journal
Homiletical Helps on LSB Series B—Epistles Easter 6 • 1 John 5:1–8 • May 10, 2015
Faithful Witness In Work And Rest, William Schumacher
Faithful Witness In Work And Rest, William Schumacher
Concordia Journal
Faithful Christian witness in work starts with the value of the work itself, in its own right, not as a means to some other end or a pretense for some specifically “religious” agenda.
Faithful Witness In Suffering And Joy, Jeffrey Oschwald
Faithful Witness In Suffering And Joy, Jeffrey Oschwald
Concordia Journal
Hardly experts on the subject of joy, we can at least become students of joy and suppliants of joy, and someday, perhaps, even coworkers of joy through faithful witness.
Can Anything Good Come Out Of _____? Come And See! Faithful Witness In Marginality And Hospitality, Leopoldo Sánchez
Can Anything Good Come Out Of _____? Come And See! Faithful Witness In Marginality And Hospitality, Leopoldo Sánchez
Concordia Journal
Christ who is suffering with us becomes a sign that, in light of the Latin American experience of suffering, reminds an often individualistic North American church that is more focused on victories than bearing crosses to embody a ministry of accompaniment with those who experience hostility and alienation.
Living In The Promises And Places Of God A Theology Of The World, Charles Arand, Erik Herrmann
Living In The Promises And Places Of God A Theology Of The World, Charles Arand, Erik Herrmann
Concordia Journal
In this discourse mutual witness is possible as the lives of both Christians and non-Christians function as a testimony to part of the story of God.
More Lively Participation, Dale Meyer
More Lively Participation, Dale Meyer
Concordia Journal
The present impartial judgment of God should drive us to fear God during our sojourn to heaven because our conduct and being is sinful, but we are awed because God is the Father who gives us our only hope of salvation, Jesus.