Wrestling with Theology

Liturgical Date: First Sunday in Advent Calendar Date: November 27, 2022 Order of Service: Matins Hymns: #355, "O Savior, Rend the Heavens Wide" #332, "Savior of the Nations, Come" #342, "What Hope! An Eden Prophesied" Sermon Theme: The Mountains of the LORD Sermon Text: Isaiah 2:1-5 Other Lectionary Readings:  Psalm 122 Romans 13:11-14 Matthew 21:1-11

Early in the fourth century, a north African pastor named Arius began teaching that Jesus Christ was not truly God. The Church responded decisively in AD 325 with a statement of faith (The Nicene Creed), which confessed that Jesus is, in fact, true God. Toward the end of the fifth century, another creed was written that delved further into the mystery of the Trinity. Though attributed to Athanasiu...

Psalm 139:13-14 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. Subscribe on Anchor (https://anchor.fm/rev-doug-minton) or your favorite podcast app.

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to him who struck down the firstborn of Egypt, for his steadfast love endures forever; and brought Israel out from among them, for his steadfast love endures forever;  with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, for his steadfast love endures forever; to him who divided the Red Sea in two, for his steadfast love endures forever;  and made Israel pass through the midst of it, for his stea...

I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of Heaven and earth and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of His Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made; who for us men and for our salvation came down f...

Liturgical Date: Last Sunday of the Church Year Calendar Date: November 20, 2022 Order of Service: Divine Service 3 Hymns: #610, "Lord Jesus, Think on Me" #534, "Lord, Enthroned in Heavenly Splendor" #621, "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence" #516, "Wake, Awake, for Night Is Flying" #680, "Thine the Amen" #422, "On My Heart Imprint Your Image" Sermon Theme: Weep for Yourselves Sermon Text: Luke 23:...

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This morning, we look to the fourth-century Church Father Ambrose of Milan’s conclusion to the Flood from his book On Noah : Let us examine with greater attention the meaning of the words “the Lord said in His heart, I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth” [Genesis 8:21]. He will not add that He intends to destroy again, as He...

Liturgical Date: Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost Calendar Date: November 13, 2022 Order of Service: Service of Prayer & Preaching Hymns: #733, "O God, Our Help in Ages Past" #508, "The Day Is Surely Drawing Near" #735, "Have No Fear, Little Flock" #348, "The King Shall Come When Morning Dawns" Sermon Theme: Destruction Is Coming Sermon Text: Luke 21:5-28 Other Lectionary Readings:  Ps...

The First Article: Creation I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth. What does this mean? I believe that God has made me and all creatures; that He has given me my body and soul, eyes, ears, and all my members, my reason and all my senses, and still takes care of them.  He also gives me clothing and shoes, food and drink, house and home, wife and children, land, anima...

Genesis 8:20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Genesis 8:15-17 Then God said to Noah, “Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you. Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh—birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”

Genesis 8:14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried out.

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Genesis 8:8-9 Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground. But the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned to the Ark.

Liturgical Date: All Saints' Day Calendar Date: November 6, 2022 Order of Service: Divine Service 1 Hymns: #676, "Behold, a Host Arrayed in White" #932, "Jesus Sat with His Disciples" #601, "All Who Believe and Are Baptized" "Praise God for Saints Who Have Gone Before Us" #510, "A Multitude Comes from the East and the West" #669, "Come, We That Love the Lord" #659, "Lord of My Life" Sermon Theme:...

Genesis 8:6-7 At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made and sent forth a raven. It went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth.

What does God say about all these commandments? He says, I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments." (Exodus 20:5-6) What does this mean? God threatens to punish all who break these commandments. Therefore,...

Genesis 8:4 and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

Psalm 136:1-9 Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever. Give thanks to the God of gods, for his steadfast love endures forever. Give thanks to the Lord of lords, for his steadfast love endures forever; to him who alone does great wonders, for his steadfast love endures forever; to him who by understanding made the heavens, for his steadfast love endures forev...

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You shall not covet your neighbor's house. What does this mean? We should fear and love God so that we do not scheme to get our neighbor's inheritance or house, or get it in a way which only appears right, but help and be of service to him in keeping it. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor. What doe...

Psalms 135:13  Your name, O LORD, endures forever, your renown, O LORD, throughout all ages. Psalms 137:1  By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion. Psalms 138:8  The LORD will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O LORD, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands. Subscribe on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/27tIOK...

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