Tag: Engaging
Lutherans Engaging in the Electoral Process
What is at stake in the electoral process? For Lutherans, our response is not exclusively individualistic. FOUNDATIONS OF OUR CONSIDERATION The electoral process is one way in the United States that we steward our life together as a nation, care for our neighbor and promote the common good. The topic may get additional attention during an election cycle, but the foundations of its consideration are shaped by a Lutheran understanding of God’s intent to work through human activity to order and provide earthly justice and enough for all. These foundations are expressed in Bible studies and sermon reflections and…
A More Responsible Way to Think About Biblical Eschatology: Engaging with Karl Heim Through TF Torrance
The following is a repost from September 25, 2018. It is this kind of thinking that moved me from a premillennial understanding of the last times, to an amillennial perspective (although I still retain the right to a historic premillennial perspective depending on the moment). The following post sounds like I have no interest or time for paying attention to geo-political and theopolitical trends as those might or might not pertain to God’s inbreaking into the world in an end times type of way. I am a futurist, I think you have to be because Jesus was; because the Old…