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Liturgy: “Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox, You Are the Church”
I hope we always continue to reform the church, but I also hope that as we enter a post-Christian age we look to a post-Reformation church.
Liturgy: “More Than Prideful Ambition”
Imitation is an important part of education. We learn much more from human models than we learn from abstracted academic principles.
Liturgy: “Practicing Faith”
Just as we need to spend quality time at the piano to really know our music, we need to spend time with God reviewing truths in Scripture and spiritual lessons we have learned.
Responsible Before God Alone: Eric Metaxas and President Thornbury Discuss Martin Luther
President Gregory Alan Thornbury joined Eric Metaxas to discuss Metaxas’s new book, ‘Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World’.
Liturgy: “Why bother following God’s commands?”
If our own righteousness is, as Isaiah puts it: “filthy rags,” and it is only righteousness from Christ that saves us, what are we to do?
Liturgy: “Let’s Get Ready to Humble”
Scripture is filled with demands for humility from those who want to be faithful followers of Jesus. But what do we think that humility is? A low estimation of our worth? A type of weakness? An invitation to have people walk all over you?
Liturgy: “The Last Will Be First”
In Flannery O’Connor’s “The Lame Shall Enter First,” a social worker named Sheppard takes under his wing a very smart, but very troubled, fourteen-year-old named Rufus Johnson. Rufus Johnson has a deformed foot, which symbolizes the deformity of his soul.
Liturgy: “I forgive you, Dr. Blander”
When someone hurts my feelings, I never forget the hurt or the hurter. It takes a divine generosity for me to get over myself and to forgive.
Liturgy: “Fakeness Makes Me Puke, but…”
This week’s liturgy is contributed by Professor Chris Cragin-Day, assistant professor of writing and theater.
Liturgy: “Love ’em like a plumber”
Dr. Dru Johnson offers this week’s teaching about our personal lives in community from Romans 12.
