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040. Revelation 14:1-5
Get PDFChapel Sermon by Lawrence Rast from Revelation 14:1-5 on Friday, November 3, 2023
Back to the Future: Hoping in God’s Sacramental Kingdom
No full textKnowing how to engage the world around us in sharing the Gospel has been a problem the church has faced since its inception. We are directed to share the Good News of salvation through Christ Jesus, but when the reality of sin is something more and more people flat-out reject, explaining the need for forgiveness becomes even more difficult. Thankfully, God has given His church many more tools in His sacramental gifts. He doesn’t just tell us, He shows us what He is doing and what the future holds. Looking to the sacraments, we find new ways of engaging the despairing world and showing those without hope that there truly is something to look forward to, because God is already bringing it to us now
Escape from Vanity: Jean-Luc Marion on the Possibility of Theological Virtue in a Nihilistic Age
No full textNietzsche wrote in 1885, “Nihilism stands at the door.” In 2023, this uncanny guest is no longer at the threshold. Nihilism has stormed the house. It is the wind that blows through this stretch of the valley of the shadow of death the church walks today. Jean-Luc Marion diagnoses this normal nihilism as the end of a process that revealed human desire as intractably and terminally poisoned with vanity. Marion suggests it is only in “desiring the will of the Father” that vanity can be overcome. This sectional will use Marion’s account of desire in order to develop an approach to mission that utilizes the theological virtue of love in response to the vanity the church and the world
Embodied Superintendence: The Person of the Preacher and the Cultural Identity
No full textThe current homiletical world is rife with identity politics and intersectionality, yet modern Lutheran engagements tend to be ships passing in the night. This sectional will situate considerations of the person of the preacher as a historical and foundational Lutheran homiletic whilst maintaining faithfulness to the authority of the Word and the proclamation of the Gospel. A theoretical consideration called “Embodied Superintendence” will be offered that centers the preaching task of the Gospel of Jesus Christ while allowing cultural identity to be formative in helpful ways: holding to the Lutheran belief that God is speaking through the preacher, considerations of his cultural identity can form and inform the ways in which the preaching task is effected, particularly in regards to the preacher’s study and preparation, character and personality
To Begin at Home: An Exploration of Intellectual Hospitality in the Word of Martin Franzmann
No full textAnthony Thiselton once rightly remarked that “too often we attack or defend before we have genuinely understood.” If there is any quote that sums up the current state of discourse in the world today it is that one. The practice of extending intellectual hospitality is sorely needed in public and private discourse, both inside and outside the church. By observing the work of Martin Hans Franzmann, Lutherans can understand practically what intellectual hospitality is and why it matters publicly, privately, ecclesiastically and academically. This presentation will contextualize instances of humility and the extension of intellectual hospitality displayed in Franzmann’s ecclesiastical and academic work. It will explore the concept of intellectual hospitality and make an appeal, influenced by Franzmann, for the proliferation of this practice
Creation and Hope: How the First Article Teaches Us How to Live by Hope
No full textChristians have wonderful promises to give them hope. The promises are wonderful both because of what is promised — eternal life and salvation — and because of the one making promises — God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth. The fact that God is making the promises means that Christians living by hope will be confident to find God working good things out in the world that is His. Discerning that sin and evil are in the world is one thing. Expecting the world to be sin and evil is quite another, and out of line with the confession that “God has made me.” This presentation will discuss how the First Article of the Creed bears on how to live by hope and suggest some ways it teaches us to live by hope today
103. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
Get PDFChapel Sermon by Joel Okamoto from 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 on Monday, March 6, 2023
045. Psalm 23
No full textPsalm 23 presented by David Adams for the Psalm reading for Sunday, April 30, 2023 the Fourth Sunday of Easter
Life Team Presentation from 3-12-23 on Pornography
No full textLife Team Presentation 3-12-23 on Pornography and how it has become a problem in society and even the church