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S*E*X and Being God’s Family, Romans 1:16-2:11

March 12, 2010

A sermon by Dr. Randy Bush My son has recently gotten into card tricks, so I’ll begin with a simple card trick. (Pull out four cards – all Aces.) My deck is small, but I bet I can guess what card you’re holding; not the suit, perhaps, but I’m 100% sure I can guess what [...]

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What could bring a person to change his or her mind about sexuality and ordination? What happened in your case?

November 25, 2009

- Jack Rogers … I had often said that I could not change my position on homosexuality unless I was convinced by Scripture. By studying the Bible in its historical and cultural context and through the lens of Jesus’ redeeming life and ministry, I have now been convinced that Scripture does not condemn, as such, the [...]

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What does Romans 1 teach about homosexuality, and how should we live in response?

November 23, 2009

- Beverly Roberts Gaventa   In the first chapter of Paul’s letter to the Romans, we find an extended attack on humanity for its failure to live in a properly creaturely relationship to God. Among the things Paul says in this long accusation is that “their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the [...]

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Witnessing to God’s Own Hope: A Reflection on Romans

November 3, 2007

Beverly Roberts Gaventa Professor of New Testament Princeton Theological Seminary November 2007 It was Phoebe who read the letter, Paul’s letter to the Romans. Of course, it was Paul who struggled to produce the words themselves (probably over an extended period of time). Paul dictated those words, and Tertius wrote them down, but it was [...]

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When in Rome…

November 9, 2006

Romans 3:21-31  The Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II Thursday, November 9, 2006 J. Herbert Nelson, II, is pastor of Liberation Community Presbyterian Church in Memphis, TN, a tent-making new church development that evangelizes the poor into PC(USA) membership. Dr. Nelson, who was recently the Associate Director of the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social [...]

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The Freedom to Live by Faith Alone

July 1, 2005

  Sermon A Church for Our Time Conference Ghost Ranch (July 1, 2005) Hab. 2:4, Rom. 1:14-17, and Rom. 3:28 Paul E. Capetz Associate Professor of Historical Theology at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities Our church stands in the tradition of Martin Luther and his followers in the 16th century, including John Calvin, [...]

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