... , popular philosopher, William Fulghum wrote about the German town of Ulm, where in the sixteenth century there lived a man named Hans Babblinger. He was a dreamer and inventor who believed that someday human beings would fly. He created some wings, went to the ... unsettling message about God’s judgment. It is a message that most of us would rather not hear. It is a message that, frankly, I would rather not preach. In the face of such a message, some of us might sink into hopelessness and despair. But I ...
... the truth and the life." (8) Honest doubt is not all bad. For a faith to be a mature, it must be examined. Hans Kung goes so far as to write, "We must at some time doubt seriously, absolutely seriously, to the point of despair." (9) ... 4. Mark 15:39 5. Crum, J.M.C. "Now the Green Blade Riseth." 6. John 20:25 7. John 11 8. John 14:6 9. Kung, Hans, "Does God Exist?" P. 72. 10.von Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie Aphorisms 10. Leighton Farrell, Cries From The Cross (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1994), p. 91. 11. Colaw, ...
... world into two parts: B.C. (before Christ) and A.D. “Anno Domini, (the year of our Lord). So let us say frankly and forthrightly what Christmas is, and not sell out our spiritual birthright for a mess of secular pottage. If it is inappropriate ... glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” (II Cor. 4:6) And on that one glimpse of light, we base our lives. I like Hans Kng’s definition of faith as “reasonable trust.” We do not have to park our brains in the narthex when we come to church. Reason has a ...
... brother Abel"— Genesis 4. "Go and do likewise" — Luke 10. "What you are about to do, do quickly" — John 13. All scripture, but, frankly, you can prove anything you want using scripture if you are willing to use it incorrectly. Remember this: A text without a context is a ... victor, God is. Those words have comforted the hearts of who knows how many persecuted people down through the centuries. Hans Lilje, a bishop in the church in Germany during the time of the Nazis, said he never really appreciated the ...
... the same time to believe in the New Testament world of demons and spirits.” (“New Testament and Mythology” in Bartsch, Hans Werner, Ed., Kergyma and Myth: A Theological Debate, London: S.P.C.K., 1957, p.4) To which the only proper ... the world its greatest music, philosophy, and literature, allowed the extermination of six million of God’s children! I think that we must frankly face the fact that Jesus and the writers of the New Testament may have known exactly what they were talking about when they ...
