they thin my life with little things
& my life with change A sermon from Matthew 11:25-30 : Whether you have a Ph.D. in theology or not, you’re a theologian. We all are. One way or another, life itself will force you to try and answer questions like, “ where is God in all this” and “ what is God up to.” Unfortunately , and maybe you’ve already noticed this, many of the answers that get tossed around ring pretty hollow . They ring hollow. …Way back in 1518, Luther addressed this. In fact, it was the ubiquity of all those empty , prepackaged answers that drove Luther to what we call the “reformation breakthrough.” The theology of the cross . Because, and this is the thing, Luther wasn’t trying to do theology right . He was trying to find out if theology actually had anything to say about real -life. See, Luther’s problem was never that he was the smartest guy in the room. No, his problem was that all the peddled answers didn’t have a rotten thing to do with real -life—certainly not those places wh...