Progressive Christianity in the Local Church
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How Christians can revere Jesus as the Christ while honoring people of other faiths:  Eight sermons exhibiting a spirit Christology:
"God in Three Persons"  texts:  Genesis 1: 1-5; John 7: 37-39; John 14: 25-26
"God Was in Christ"  texts:  John 10: 22-30; John 14: 8-11; John 14: 5-17; John 20: 24-30
"The Holocaust:  a Challenge to Christianity"  texts:  John 9: 13-22; Romans 11: 1-2, 13-18; 1 John 2: 7-11
"Jewish Eulogy for a Christian Friend" texts:  Genesis 32: 22-31; Psalm 17: 1-7, 15; Romans 9: 1-5; Matthew 14: 13-21
"The Light of All People"  texts:  John 1: 1-9; John 20: 19-31; 1 John 1: 1-5
"Straight Talk About Jesus"  texts:  Isaiah 53: 1-6; Philippians 2: 5-11; John 1: 14-18
"The Personal Way"  texts:  Ecclesiastes 1: 12-18; Galatians 3: 21-29; John 1: 16-18
"Why Be Christian?"  texts:  Philippians 3: 4-14; Colossians 2: 1-5; John 1: 9-18


Twelve sermons dealing with faith, the state, and military might:
"Two sermons about holy land"  texts:  1 Kings 8: 1,6, 10-12, 27-30, 41-43; Psalm 84: 1-4, 10; John 14: 1-7; Deuteronomy 7: 1-6; Isaiah 61: 1-9; Luke 4: 16-29
"Awesome Basilea"  texts:  Jeremiah 17: 7-8; Matthew 13: 31-32
"The Challenge of Patriotism"  texts:  1 Samuel 8: 4-18; Psalm 118: 1-9
"Distinctions Among Ourselves"  texts:  James 2: 1-5; Ephesians 2: 11-18
"God and Country"  texts:  1 samuel 10: 17-19, 20a, 25; Romans 13: 1-7; Revelation 13: 1-8
"Pre-emptive Good"  texts:  Romans 12: 9-21; Matthew 10: 1, 5-16; Matthew 16: 21-26
"Remembering Nine-Eleven" Exodus 12: 1-14; Romans 13: 8-12
"Ultimate Authority" Psalm 99: 1-5; Romans 13: 1-5; Matthew 22: 15-22
"Violence Cannot Overcome Violence"  texts:  Genesis 6: 11-12; Revelation 18: 18b-21; Matthew 3: 1, 10-11a, 12; Matthew 11: 11-12
"What Kind of Deliverance"  texts:  2 Samuel: 1-3, 32-43, 47-49; Isaiah 9: 2-7; Psalm 46; Philippians 2: 1-11
Readers interested in the above sermons may also wish to read my series of Bible studies entitled, "Faith and the Spirits of Politics, in Volume 2 of The Pastor's Bible Study:  A New Interpreter's Bible Study Resource, published by Augsburg Press.



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