Tag: repentance

Household: Lost Sheep, Luke 15:4-7 (Part 1)

Jul 23, 2007

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mwkruse

in Culture, History, Series: Household of God, Sociology, Theology

We have just explored the Old Testament Shepherd metaphors. It is time to back up and review what led to this parable in Luke 15. 1 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. 2 And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, "This fellow welcomes sinners…
Jacob Returns

Jul 13, 2005

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by

mwkruse

in Disillusion, Series: Disillusion – Hebrew Testament (Series), Theology

Gen 35:1-7 NRSV 1 God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau." 2 So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are…