Step Out ... Into Faith

Inigo Montoya’s most repeated and memed line from The Princess Bride is “”You keep using that word…. I don’t think it means what you think it means.” What did Paul mean by “faith?” And what does faith...

August 2017

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Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost, Year A

Step Forward ... Your Siblings in Abraham

"For the gifts and callings of God are irrevocable” (Romans 11:2a, NRSV). Often this text is used (and not entirely improperly) to support doctrine about the permanent nature of spiritual gifts, bapti...

August 2017

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Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost, Year A

Step Forth ... In Your Spiritual Gifts

We step out into our own identity in Christ. We step toward others in our extended family in Abraham. And we step forth, both within the community of the church and toward the wider world, in the powe...