SPROUL: When I would teach in the doctor of ministry program and I’d have the clergy in there, I would ask them to define the gospel. And if I got ten percent of them to give an adequate answer to it, ...
Gospel of 23 September 2024 Luke 8:16-18 Jesus said to the crowds: 'No one lights a lamp to cover it with a bowl or to put it under a bed. No, he puts it on a lamp-stand so that people may see the ...
Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. Rescue the weak and needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked. "Give fair judgment to the poor and the ...
‘As for me, I no longer find anything in books, with the exception of the Gospel. The Gospel is enough.’ I love you because you remained a child, or, rather, you rediscovered all the graces of ...
The Sunday gospel lectionary reading for Trinity 19 in this Year B is Mark 10.2–16. I think it is impossible to preach on this passage without dealing with the question of the consequences of Jesus’ ...
First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the ...
“I am the way, the truth, and the life, and no man comes to the Father but by Me” (John 14:6). The positive of that exclusivity is that there is an absolute imperative upon us to take the gospel to ...
The Sunday gospel lectionary reading for Trinity 18 in Year B is Mark 10.2–16. I think it is impossible to preach on this passage without dealing with the question of the consequences of Jesus’ ...