Sunday Sermon (Matthew 6:1-18)
(AUDIO NOTE: The quality of this recording is very poor. It is all my fault; I had the internal mic on the computer turned on instead of the input jack. I apologize for the inconvenience. –Nate)
Pastor Mark Tucker speaks on how we should deal with the instruction Jesus gives to only use our Christian disciplines in private — do we have to choose between being hermits or hypocrites?
Sunday Sermon (Matthew 5:43-48)
In the ongoing sermon Series on Matthew, Stephen Leung urges us to go “deeper and wider” love for those who would oppose us.
Brett Hartman shares his reflection on the life and influence of Seth Dyrness. Seth entered Jesus’ presence on October 16 or 17, 2006.
Alan Mills shares his reflection on the life and influence of Seth Dyrness. Seth entered Jesus’ presence on October 16 or 17, 2006.
Rene and Lani Quimbo share several inspirational stories about their mission with Presbyterian Mission International, where they are working with Muslims and poor rural tribes in the Phillippines.
Guest preacher Solomon Kendagor, Director of the St. Louis division of International Students, Inc., preaches on how to reach others through love, using the example of Christ’s prayer for all believers.
On Old Orchard Church’s 25th anniversary service, Ron Lutjens preaches on how “getting the green light” is not necessarily the way God wants our lives to go, and how a beautiful newly renovated church building like our own can quickly become ugly when what goes on inside it is not dedicated to our Lord.
Sunday Sermon (Matthew 5:38-42)
Sermon Series on Matthew
Ron Lutjens, senior pastor, preaching.
When Jesus told us to “turn the other cheek” was he wanting to encourage milquetoast Chritianity, in which we just get walked over all the time? No, he was promoting a plan of counter attack that met evil with good, and in so doing made evil cave in on itself.
We finally got our act together enough to provide some dates for Movies@Milligan House in advance — here’s the schedule for the next three months:
(Each is a Friday night, and they all start at 6:30pm.) I’ll announce the movies soon.
Since some people in the world are feeling mighty offended at Pope Benedict’s recent speech (or rather, by a snippet that has been taken out of context and transmitted as though people were using paper cups to communicate), I thought it salutary (Ron’s word) to take a moment to read the actual text of the speech. In response to the response, as it were, SLU professor of medieval history Thomas Madden has a fine article in NRO, and Bret Stephens has one in the WSJ. But those commentaries deal primarily with the speech vis-a-vis the “inflamed Arab street,” whereas as a Protestant, I am also curious about the remarks the pope made that were (supposedly) critical of the Reformers:
De-Hellenization first emerges in connection with the fundamental postulates of the Reformation in the 16th century. Looking at the tradition of scholastic theology, the Reformers thought they were confronted with a faith system totally conditioned by philosophy, that is to say an articulation of the faith based on an alien system of thought. As a result, faith no longer appeared as a living historical Word but as one element of an overarching philosophical system.
The principle of “sola scriptura,” on the other hand, sought faith in its pure, primordial form, as originally found in the biblical Word. Metaphysics appeared as a premise derived from another source, from which faith had to be liberated in order to become once more fully itself. When Kant stated that he needed to set thinking aside in order to make room for faith, he carried this program forward with a radicalism that the Reformers could never have foreseen. He thus anchored faith exclusively in practical reason, denying it access to reality as a whole.
Can someone illucidate what the pope is getting at here?
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