Sermon - 7/26/20

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Religion

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As Lutheran Christians, our theology is rooted in an understanding of the cross. As such, our understanding of God’s presence to us in Jesus Christ focuses on what it means to walk the way of the cross and carry the cross. This also means that we name a thing or situation for what it is, and we do not preach a theology of glory and false optimism. Therefore, I am going to name and be honest about the cross we are presently carrying. We are experiencing some very challenging, painful, fearful days. And, this cross we presently bear is heavy as we grieve the lives of over 147,000 Americans who have died from the Coronavirus, a number that is greater than two and a half Viet Nam wars. It is a very heavy cross we bear when we understand it did not have to be this way! So, for me, this grief is substantial and, as I said last week, there is a deep, deep longing within me for the Kingdom of God to be fully realized, NOW! Quite honestly, if we have any sense of empathy as we look at what is happening in our country, the pain and grief seem intense. At times when we experience intense pain and grief, God seems to be hidden and we often ask the question, “Where is God in the midst of this?” So, it is fitting that we receive today’s life-giving word from Romans because, in this passage, St. Paul essentially is asking the same rhetorical question. And, in his answer to this question, we receive some of the most assuring words of comfort that we can ever find in scripture as Paul writes: ….in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Now, while these words provide immense comfor

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