In 1518, not even a year after the infamous posting of the 95 Theses on a Wittenberg Church door, Martin Luther went to his fellow priests and monks of the Augustinian order to present his thoughts on the relationship between God and mankind. That presentation, the Heidelberg disputation, became the basis for the Lutheran concept of the “theology of the Cross” – a theology in which God is seen as a suffering God and humankind is completely reliant upon this suffering God for life. This Lent, University Lutheran will be perceiving life through this lens.
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Theology of the Cross
We finish our “Together with Jesus” series with Transfiguration and we ask the question “What does it prove?” that Jesus was Transfigured before His disciples.
We finish our “Theology of the Cross” series with the final thesis of the theology of the cross, which is all about how God creates what He loves, as opposed to how we can only love what we can experience – and somehow, pizza comes up. Sermon Text: John 11 The Death of Lazarus [1] Now…
We talk about Jesus and the blind man who was healed, but mostly about how Jesus goes beyond the categories and equations that we try to fit Him into. Sermon Text: John 9 Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind [1] As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. [2] And his disciples…
Today we baptized little Isaac and talked about how we can sometimes get confused about subjects and objects in our understanding of God – hint hint, the subject is always Jesus. Sermon based on: John 4:5-30 [5] So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to…
When God asks us to have faith in something, He is telling us that whatever that is, that we should consider it as already done. We talk about how this applies to our life of faith and the time of our lives. Sermon Text: Romans 4 Abraham Justified by Faith [1] What then shall we say…
We start off our series about the Theology of the Cross talking about the ways that we try to attain righteousness, or becoming a good person, and how that can’t be about our religion or our irreligion, but about a third way called the Gospel. Romans 5:12-21 Death in Adam, Life in Christ [12] Therefore,…