Discover your spiritual gifts and find out how the Holy Spirit has given you power to change your life and the world around you. Three sessions with Rev. Josh Acton of the Order of St. Luke.
For more info check out: OSLToday.org and desertcall.org
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Discover your spiritual gifts and find out how the Holy Spirit has given you power to change your life and the world around you. Three sessions with Rev. Josh Acton of the Order of St. Luke.
For more info check out: OSLToday.org and desertcall.org
Part twelve - Finally getting to some examples of what it looks like to be Christian in a godless world, we are called not to get caught up in Jesus way.
Part ten - In the boldest terms yet used, Bonhoeffer says that people must learn to manage our lives without God, and not expect God's actions, yet know that it is before that weak God who demands us live without him that we stand. By Pastor Lars Hammar
While in the Tegel Prison in Berlin awaiting trial for participating in a plot to kill Hitler, Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer began to contemplate a future for Christianity and the church in a world with science, secularism, and world wars. His idea were formulated in different letters to his pastor friend Eberhard Bethge and compiled with all his prison writings in Letters from Prison.
Part eight - After deconstructing the popular idea of "redemption"in Christianity, Bonhoeffer begins to re-imagine what the word might mean in a world where people no longer believe in a literal hell with an eternal punishment that they need to be rescued from.
By Pastor Lars Hammar
Part seven - Christian theologians have emphacized redemption as a rescuing from this world to the next, but, Bonhoeffer argues, that goes against the Old Testament, and ultimately Jesus. The Christian has no escape from earthly difficulties. By Pastor Lars Hammar
A conversation and study of how ELCA Lutherans understand human sexuality, both in the Bible, and in the 2009 Social Statements on Human Sexuality. Part four, we take a look at some of the specific conclusions of the statement regarding such things as marriage, cohabitation, promiscuity, and same-sex relationships.
To download and read the official statement click here.
A conversation and study of how ELCA Lutherans understand human sexuality, both in the Bible, and in the 2009 Social Statements on Human Sexuality. Part two of four classes, this session focuses on some of the teachings of the new testament, showing the turn from Jesus and Paul to the harsh legalism of the Deutero-Pauline Epistles (ones with Paul's name but not written by Paul) and the Pastoral Epistles.
To download and read the official statement click here
A conversation and study of how ELCA Lutherans understand human sexuality, both in the Bible, and in the 2009 Social Statements on Human Sexuality. Part one of four classes.
To download and read the official statement click here.
A look at the social statement of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on abortion, approved at the 1991 church-wide assembly. A review of the statement itself, and conversation around thoughts and reactions.
Make sure to download the statements. They're too big to put on powerpoints.
Abortion Social Statement - download here: https://www.elca.org/Faith/Faith-and-Society/Social-Statements/Abortion
A look at the social statement on the Economic Life of the ELCA, and some conversation around how social statements are made, why, and what purpose they serve. In-Person and online. Make sure to download the statements to read before and during the class. They're too big to put on powerpoints.
Economic Life Social Statement - download here: https://www.elca.org/Faith/Faith-and-Society/Social-Statements/Economic-Life
Join us for part three of a discussion on what people believe today verses what they believed in biblical times. Indeed people’s beliefs about a satan, sin, eschatology, resurrection and salvation have evolved over time.
This course is a brief introduction of this evolution from the earliest parts of the Hebrew Scriptures, to the later Hebrew Scriptures. From after the Babylonian exile, to what Jesus said, to what rest of the New Testament says, to what we believe today. Then we will look at what might be an appropriate “S” Theology moving forward in the 21st century. The “S” Course might surprise you and even make you rethink what you yourself believe about the five S’s
Join us for part two of a discussion on what people believe today verses what they believed in biblical times. Indeed people’s beliefs about a satan, sin, eschatology, resurrection and salvation have evolved over time.
This course is a brief introduction of this evolution from the earliest parts of the Hebrew Scriptures, to the later Hebrew Scriptures. From after the Babylonian exile, to what Jesus said, to what rest of the New Testament says, to what we believe today. Then we will look at what might be an appropriate “S” Theology moving forward in the 21st century. The “S” Course might surprise you and even make you rethink what you yourself believe about the five S’s
Taught by Pastor Stewart McDonald
Join us for a discussion on what people believe today verses what they believed in biblical times. Indeed people’s beliefs about a satan, sin, eschatology, resurrection and salvation have evolved over time.
This course is a brief introduction of this evolution from the earliest parts of the Hebrew Scriptures, to the later Hebrew Scriptures. From after the Babylonian exile, to what Jesus said, to what rest of the New Testament says, to what we believe today. Then we will look at what might be an appropriate “S” Theology moving forward in the 21st century. The “S” Course might surprise you and even make you rethink what you yourself believe about the five S’s
Taught by Pastor Stewart McDonald.