Posts Tagged: state

Church Missional
The Gospel, the Crowd and Politics
October 13, 2024
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So how are you responding in the midst of these uncertain chaotic times? Are you going from one podcast or meme to another? Are you siloing more deeply into your comfortable tribe? Or are you too fed up with everything that you are just going into emotional dissonance. Maybe you are part of the almost […]
Tough Issues
The Gospel and Government
May 8, 2024
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We are in turbulent and transitional times. It is more important than ever that we are confident in the Gospel so we may have a faithful witness and work in our local community, nation and world. Paul encouraged the church in Corinth with these words, “Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in […]
Devotional
Who is King?
June 25, 2023
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June 25, 2023 Crossroads Church Aspen, Pastor Steve Woodrow Who is King? Summer 2023 Series: Lessons from the Kings Series Description This summer at Crossroads Church Aspen we will be learning from the kings of Israel as found in 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings and 1 and 2 Chronicles. With the world […]
Church Tough Issues
Thoughts on History, Church and the State (v.4)
April 20, 2021
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“They do not see the radical claim of truth on the shaping of their lives.”  – Dietrich Bonhoeffer Bonhoeffer pinned those words in about 1930 while he was on a visiting trip to Union Theological Seminary in New York. It was the time of the battle between the liberals and the fundamentalists. At the center […]
Church Tough Issues
Thoughts on History, Church and the State (v.3)
April 12, 2021
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“The state which endangers the Christian proclamation negates itself.”  -Dietrich Bonhoeffer This is a quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer from one of his messages during the rise of the Nazis in Germany. The power grab by Hitler and the Nazis came quicker than anyone could have imagined. It thrust the German church into turmoil and ultimately […]
Church Tough Issues
Thoughts on History, Church and the State (v.2)
April 5, 2021
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We should learn from history, but too many times we end up just repeating it. If anything proves the biblical doctrine of “sin” and that “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, “ it should be the repeating of the same evils throughout history.  One of the worst evils that has […]
Church Tough Issues
Thoughts on History, Church and the State v.1
March 28, 2021
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“But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” -Matthew 6:33  Recently I finished ready Bonhoeffer; Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German pastor during WWII and Hitler’s Third Reich reign of terror between 1933 and 1945. Reading about the […]