RoboPreacher

it never took me anywhere A sermon on the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount ( Matthew 5:1-20 ): One of my favorite movies, and I've talked about it before, is "Little Miss Sunshine." This movie, for me, coincided with lutheran theology. And so it occupies a place right alongside "Lutheranism 101." That said, this movie is not PG, so if you rent it and are offended, don't say I didn't try to warn you... The movie follows a more or less nuclear family. And like many families these days, every member struggles to put up with one another. For various reasons, they all grate on each-other’s nerves.   One of the funniest points of friction in the movie, is the father with, well, basically everyone … The father aspires to be a self-help guru. In fact, the movie opens on him giving one of his seminars. …The class, though, is comprised of a small handful of students, in a dimly -lit and depressing little classroom.   Despite ...

but i can't recall how i was those days anymore The Holy Gospel according to St. Mark ! Jesus comes back home, but after everything he’s been up to, the hometown crowd isn’t so sure about him. In fact, there are even some who are accusing him of being out of his mind; or more literally, outside of himself … That’s the way the life of faith always looks from the outside, though. Just ask Paul; as he says, the life of faith is a life spent looking toward what cannot be seen; to the world that kind of life looks crazy. Or, for that matter, just ask Martin Luther. Luther lived with the acute awareness that he could not get himself to do the will of God; that deep down his and God’s will were at odds … Faithful fellow that he was, though, he did everything the church had to offer in the way of doing God’s will. The problem, as Luther came to find, was that nothing from the blasted religious-project actually worked , nothing could reconcile his will to God...