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Summary:     Moralistic, Therapeutic Deism is a common belief system that many accept as a form of Christianity. It is not. It is a counterfeit. It is a product of our self-centered culture. Real historic Christianity if centered on the cross. Life that really is life comes through a living relationship with the one true living God. 

   Referenced Bible texts:  Matthew 11:29-30; John 1:10-13; 2 Timothy 4:3-4; Ephesians 2:19-22   
   Articles referenced: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moralistic_therapeutic_deism
                                 https://www.livinglutheran.org/2020/02/we-are-broken/
   Other helpful links: https://stpaulcenter.com/what-is-moral-therapeutic-deism-and-why-does-it-fail/
                                https://www.christianpost.com/news/moralistic-therapeutic-deism-the-new-american-religion.html
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Summary:     How can we live faithfully as time passes quickly and slowly at the same time? Bible reading, the primary way God speaks to us, and prayer, the primary way we speak with God, are means of the streams of living waters by which the Holy Spirit nourishes and sustains our faith. The requirements of pandemic have given many of us the time and pace of life to open our hearts and receive and/or experience growth in faith that is a living relationship with the living God.

   Referenced Bible texts:  Psalm 51:10-17
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Summary:     Here is how I know that that I exist, and who I am. The answer is not centered on me, it is outside of myself. God created me, therefore I am.  
   We were created for a living relationship with the one true living God.  We are God’s son or daughter, we are beloved by God. Nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus. That is our identity and our existence. 

   Referenced Bible texts:  Psalm 8; Genesis 1:26-27; John 3:16; Romans 8:31-39
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Summary:  Civilization begins and sustained by caring for others at some sacrifice for oneself. This is at the heart of what it means to be a Christian. The greatest contribution Christians make to civilization is to proclaim Christ and the selfless love that can only come from God.

   Referenced Bible texts: Romans 5:6-8;  Genesis 4:1-11;  Hebrews 11:4;  Ephesians 4:1-3   
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Summary:  The reason for churches to hope in this pandemic season is that the head of the Church is Jesus Christ. We are the body of Christ. The diversity of gifts given through our members (parts of a body) are the means by which Jesus equips the Church to live in the world, whatever our circumstance.
 
   Referenced Bible texts: Ephesians 4:11-16
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Summary:  The word “radical” comes from the Latin word radicalis, and in an earlier Latin word, radix, both meaning “root”, as in the root of a tree. The problem with being a political or social radical is, first, that pushing for the extreme makes one more and more exclusive of others and the movement fractures and, second that, by themselves, political and social movements are not radical enough. The Holy Spirit both calls us to be nourished by God, the root of all things, and drawn together in unity by equipping us to do things that do not come from ourselves but by the power and the will of God. 
 
   Referenced Bible texts: 2 Corinthians 2:1-5
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Summary:  Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life. Truth is a person.
 
   Referenced Bible texts: 2 Timothy 4:1-5; John18:37-38a; John 14:6
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Summary:  We dry out when we expend more spiritual power than we can produce by trying to do what is only possible for God. The cure for spiritual dryness is streams of living water, a Biblical metaphor for the Holy Spirit. We are renewed when we open our hearts and repent, turning from our efforts to God’s.
 
   Referenced Bible texts: Matthew 11:25-30; Matthew 5:3; Joel 2:13b
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Summary:  The world will be hungry for human contact and community when post-pandemic churches fully reopen. Some will only want spiritual junk food, but others will want what God has first given us: Jesus, the Bread of Life.
 
   Referenced Bible texts: John 6:25-35
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Summary:  There is a lot of weirdness in the pandemic right now, but that’s a natural state for Christians. We gain our weirdness and our character from the wisdom and strength of God.

   Referenced Bible texts: 1 Corinthians 4:9-13;  1 Corinthians 1:24-25
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