A surprisingly large number of Christians in the US will refuse to call you Christian if you actually follow the teachings and example of Jesus.
03296 – Who is the Christian?
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03166 – Faith & Trust
Now I come to something which may at first sight seem specifically Christian – or biblical, I should rather say. But when you listen very carefully, you will see that we speak about a reality which is quite universal: faith. Faith and the path are inseparable from one...
03132 – Healthy Christian Faith
Christian faith would be so much healthier if we didn't see our faith as a war to be won or people as enemies but as worlds to be explored and people to be loved.
03066 – An Evolving, Not Finished, Story
The Christian story did not drop from heaven fully written. It grew and developed year by year over a period of forty-two to seventy years. That is not what most Christians have been taught to think, but it is factual. Christianity has always been an evolving story....
02957 – Church, Not Empire
If Jesus wanted a Christian nation, he would have established one, but he didn't. He established the church. Whenever we Christians forsake our call to be the church for a "Christian empire," the results are always catastrophic. We are called to be the church, not an...
02952 – Taking Christ’s Name in Vain
Our Christian religion is being co-opted for the sake of power and control over our culture. Where Jesus chose to save us by his grace and mercy, Christianity is being used to coerce and control people into conformity. This is what it looks like to take Christ's name...
02766 – About Death and Resurrection
The Christian faith, while wildly misrepresented in so much of American culture, is really about death and resurrection. It's about how God continues to reach into the graves we dig for ourselves and pull us out, giving us new life, in ways both dramatic and small.
02646 – Faith Must be Evaluated in Community
While all were granted the right of conscience in matters of faith, Luther still stressed the necessity of evaluating faith in community. Indeed, for Luther, the very freedom of the Christian was paradoxical as the believer is both freed from all in Christ and at the...
02502 – When I Say I Am a Christian
When I say ... "I am a Christian"I'm not shouting "I'm clean livin'."I'm whispering "I was lost,Now I'm found and forgiven."When I say ... "I am a Christian"I don't speak of this with pride.I'm confessing that I stumbleAnd need Christ to be my guide.When I say ... "I...