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John Timmer

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First Drown, Then Live

DECEMBER 2008: ADVENT SERMON by John Timmer "At that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan." --Mark 1:9 Every good story has a secret--a secret that evokes our curiosity, that keeps us turning the pages. Sometimes the storyteller lets us know the secret at the end of the story. Mystery writers keep us in suspense until the final chapter where we learn who strangled Thomas Carvey, or who poisoned Laura Tilson, or…
John Timmer
December 16, 2008
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Romans 9-11 Revisited

The question won't go away: How do Christians and Jews relate? Has Judaism been superseded by the Christian faith? Are Christians now God's chosen people? In 1965 the Roman Catholic Church at the Second Vatican Council redefined its relationship to the Jewish people. The Jews, it recognized, continue to be God's chosen people. Their religion remains for them a source of divine grace. The Christian's task is to engage them in conversation and not to proselytize them. Many of the…
John Timmer
December 16, 2007