A Reason for Doubt: Can God Really Love Us?
We’re approaching the hump day for our latest sermon series, The Skeptical Believer: Making Peace with Your Inner Atheist. Two weeks ago I asked for folks to give me some skeptical grist for reflection...
View ArticleHoly Week with Herbert: The Father Can Only Love the Son
Holy Thursday is often called ‘Maundy Thursday’ from the Latin word ‘mandatum.’ Thought most Christians mark the day by recalling the Passover meal Christ celebrated with his disciples, ‘Maundy’...
View ArticleNietzsche was Right: God Cannot Love Us
One of the things our youth have conveyed to our new youth director is their desire for catechesis before college. Training before we ship them off to college, just enough so that when they first hear...
View ArticleGod Can’t Love Us Apart from the Christ Child
The problem with many theories of the atonement, which imply that God ‘can’t’ love us- sinners that we are- until someone dies for the infinite offense, is that they neglect to notice how the gulf...
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