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Showing posts with label 18.Hope.Death.Eschatology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 18.Hope.Death.Eschatology. Show all posts
2025-12-19

ATONEMENT: How Christ makes us at-one with God

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This is a sample chapter from my Systematic Theology project " Theology for Thriving " . 📎MORE TO THE STORY notes are not part o...
2025-10-31

The Theology of Halloween: A Hopeful Sermon

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Happy Halloween! That might sound strange to hear, because we think of Halloween as connected with fear and dread. But it’s the perfect gree...
2025-10-06

COVENANTS: Relationships that lead to Thriving

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This is a sample chapter from my Systematic Theology project " Theology for Thriving ". 📎MORE TO THE STORY notes are not part of ...
2025-09-25

PROPHECY: Finding patterns in the events of history

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This is a sample chapter from my Systematic Theology project " Theology for Thriving ". 📎MORE TO THE STORY notes are not part of ...
2025-09-22

DISCIPLINE: Training us to become our best selves

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This is a sample chapter from my Systematic Theology project " Theology for Thriving ". 📎MORE TO THE STORY notes are not part of ...
2025-09-20

GEHENNA: Final discipline to bring about restoration

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This is a sample chapter from my Systematic Theology project " Theology for Thriving ". 📎MORE TO THE STORY notes are not part of ...
2025-09-18

RESURRECTION: The Final Destiny for each human being

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This is a sample chapter from my Systematic Theology project " Theology for Thriving ". 📎MORE TO THE STORY notes are not part of ...
2025-09-16

APOKATASTASIS: The Final Destiny for all of creation

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This is a sample chapter from my Systematic Theology project " Theology for Thriving ". 📎MORE TO THE STORY notes are not part of ...
2024-03-18

Acts and Afterlife, Hope and Gospel

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Recently a friend online posted this quote: "In all of the evangelistic sermons in the Book of Acts, none of them makes an appeal to af...
2024-03-09

Wittgenstein and Hope beyond hope

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Recently a friend of mine posted a neat quote by Wittgenstein: One can imagine an animal angry, fearful, sad, joyful, startled. But hopeful?...
2023-06-05

Love and Apocalypse

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There appears to be a contradiction  Between "Love one another As I have loved you" And "He will come again in glory To Judge...
2023-04-09

Easter and the philosophy of embodiment and matter

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Around Easter, I was in another discussion about the necessity of the resurrection for the hope proclaimed in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Th...
2022-06-11

Is Love stronger than hate?

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The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion....
2021-10-02

What the hell is Hell?

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This is a 2007 two-part attempt at presenting theology as a dramatic discussion inspired by Peter Kreeft , Bryan McLaren , and Roger Olson ....
2021-03-08

God is...

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The undeconstructable Love  Which shines as a Light  In the darkness Calling us to unfurl  Beckoning us to grow  Into our fullest and best s...
2020-04-12

Christ is Risen: An Ancient Easter Song

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This is one of my favorite meditations on the power of the Resurrection and the meaning of Easter, from 17 centuries ago.
2020-04-03

When Words Fail

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How both Theistic and Nontheistic language fails to describe Ultimate Reality In the constant back and forth between Theists and Nonthe...
2019-12-31

That All Shall Be Saved: Great Theology in Good Literature

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I thought I would end 2019 with hope: A review of the book “ That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation ” by Orthodox...
2019-10-23

The Harrowing of Hell

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A Lovecraftian incantation of Hope to banish dark enchantments. A poem for my son who enjoys reading Lovecraft and Poe and creating stori...
2019-05-12

Begin with the End in mind?

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To begin with the end in mind: This was an ideal of Christian ethics long before it was a catch phrase for design thinking, an axiom of c...