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Showing posts with label 45.46.Repentance.Rehabilitation.Forgiveness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 45.46.Repentance.Rehabilitation.Forgiveness. Show all posts
2022-12-03

The Empty House and Evil Squatters

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Recently a friend of mine read Jesus’ parable about the empty house of the soul, and the evil squatters who come back to take possession of ...
2021-10-08

Arguing for the sake of God

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Recently I saw someone post the meme “If only we fought as hard to understand as we do to disagree”. It is a beautiful sentiment. But I’m no...
2019-10-04

When Forgiveness is Inconvenient

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What captures my attention most often is what is wrong with the world: The craven and the cruel, the unjust and the outrageous, the hypoc...
2018-11-18

Virtue, Vice, and Cognitive Distortions

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The chart above is also available in an INTERACTIVE PDF with live links to Scriptures and online materials that elaborate the brief des...
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2018-10-12

On Sickness, Healing, and Unforgiveness

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“But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never have forgiveness, but is guilty of an everlasting sin.” (Jesus, according to M...
2018-07-15

Pontius Pilate and the inversion of Cynicism

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One of the many things that interest me about the Passion narrative in the Gospel of John is how he writes Pilate. Pilate is the epitome...
2018-04-26

A Meditation on the Lives of the Greats

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To truly change the world One must have bedrock faith That you are right (whether as individual or collective) And everyone else is wron...
2017-11-30

On subtle whoring and Kierkegaard

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A few weeks ago, my wife and I were listening to an 80's station, when they played an awful song from the 80's that I had never h...
2017-02-01

Wondervoyage: The Antidote to Affluenza

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As a host of media pundits and cultural critics have noted over the past several years, many of today’s young adults suffer from a debili...
2011-09-12

The Moral Argument Against Religion

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I am currently reading and teaching from the infamous books by Christopher Hitchens "God is not Great". In pondering Hitchens...
2009-06-24

A Litany to Pray Upon the Reading of Church Blogs

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Rubric: This Litany will help after reading Church blogs and news websites who capitalize and sensationalize schism and heresy in the Churc...
2009-04-04

New Shelves, Spring Cleaning, and Spirituality

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For reasons I am still not entirely sure of, I decided yesterday that it was time to clean the garage, re-organize, and build bookshelves t...
2008-12-30

Holy holy - Wholly whole

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Holy holy! Wholly whole! Come consuming fire and burn down my soul! Make me truly yours! Make me really me! Form and shape this clay int...
2008-03-25

A CROWN FOR A KING

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A Sermon For Year A, Passion Sunday Copyright © 2008 Nathan L. Bostian Based on Matthew 26:69-27:54 Tonight I would like us to take a ...
2008-02-11

WHAT'S SO SINFUL ABOUT SIN?

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A Sermon For Year A, First Lent Copyright © 2008 Nathan L. Bostian Based on Genesis 2-3; Romans 5:12-19; Psalm 51; John 1:9-...
2007-09-07

A TALE OF FOUR GOSPELS

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A Sermon For Year C Proper 18 Copyright © 2007 Nathan L. Bostian Based on Luke 14.25-33 SERMON: What is the best news you have ever ha...
2007-09-02

AN UNWELCOME SERMON

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A SERMON FOR Proper 16 Year C Copyright © 2007 Nathan L. Bostian Based on Hebrews 12:18-29 and Luke 13:22-30 As I stand here, I can...
2006-11-30

In Search of the "Pure Church"

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[Fr. Ahab sets to the seas to find the illusive "pure church"] I want to confess that I don't really get it. I don't ge...
2006-10-02

Living in Romans 7 | Longing for Romans 8

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I was a jerk the other day. I sinned against God and my neighbor. And I am under a lot of stress with ministry, seminary, family, lack of sl...
2005-01-21

Jimmy and the Sponge

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2017 UPDATE: I disagree with much of the content in this blog now, and am keeping it online only as evidence of how I have evolved and grown...