{"id":447,"date":"2012-03-04T11:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/sermons\/?p=447"},"modified":"2021-02-25T09:25:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T14:25:21","slug":"justifying-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/sermons\/2012\/03\/04\/justifying-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"Justifying Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Click here to hear the full service.<\/a>
\nClick here to hear the sermon only.<\/a>
\nMark 8: 31-38<\/a><\/p>\n

Preface<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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H Thurman:\u00a0 the ocean and the night<\/em><\/p>\n

Journey from sensation to reflection<\/em><\/p>\n

Seven days a week discipline, faith and technology<\/em><\/p>\n

Justifying grace:\u00a0 in trouble, at connection, by humility, as abandon<\/em><\/p>\n

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Scripture and Struggle<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Mark 70ad<\/em><\/p>\n

Disciples \u2018behind\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

Moderate Critics (Weeden), Critical Moderates (Marcus)<\/em><\/p>\n

Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone?<\/em><\/p>\n

Thou with a scornful wonder<\/em><\/p>\n

Cruciform character of divine love<\/em><\/p>\n

A little rain, Ecc. 9:11<\/em><\/p>\n

Church always both a representation and distortion of divine<\/em><\/p>\n

Starkness of cross<\/em><\/p>\n

Sterness of cross<\/em><\/p>\n

A friend in need<\/em><\/p>\n

Faith finds us in trouble<\/em><\/p>\n

Grace in trouble is justifying grace<\/em><\/p>\n

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Tradition and Connection<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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To this place, our part of the parade<\/em><\/p>\n

Hello again, Hello<\/em><\/p>\n

Faith and technology, faith and culture<\/em><\/p>\n

Absorb and Utilize<\/em><\/p>\n

10 BU presidents<\/em><\/p>\n

Alexander Graham Bell<\/em><\/p>\n

Connection! And with new media too<\/em><\/p>\n

Crackling connection<\/em><\/p>\n

Grace in a moment of connection is justifying grace<\/em><\/p>\n

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Reason and Humility<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Others faith, and my own?<\/em><\/p>\n

Old teacher who speaks to but not for and so not to<\/em><\/p>\n

From independence to dependence (life, friendship, faith, love, hope, heaven)<\/em><\/p>\n

Margaret Fuller\u2019s 4 questions<\/em><\/p>\n

God be merciful to me, a sinner<\/em><\/p>\n

V Havel, 2 quotes<\/em><\/p>\n

Intelligence unleavened by kindness is dangerous<\/em><\/p>\n

Dangerous piercing, tattooed by compunction<\/em><\/p>\n

I Kant:\u00a0 Critique of Pure Reason<\/em><\/p>\n

M. Robinson, E Kohak<\/em><\/p>\n

Grace in a sense of humility is justifying grace<\/em><\/p>\n

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Experience and Abandon<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Oceanside, Pelican<\/em><\/p>\n

Waves, Surf, Tide, Surfer, Swimmer, in and out, in and out<\/em><\/p>\n

That undulating, grounding, supportive grace<\/em><\/p>\n

Dad, Malibu, walking, nourished by the waves, in and out, in and out<\/em><\/p>\n

Teaching beginners:\u00a0 square knot, English idioms, Greek alphabet, swimming<\/em><\/p>\n

Prone Float:\u00a0 Justifying Grace<\/em><\/p>\n

Altar Call:\u00a0 first time, or in a long time, or on the long journey<\/em><\/p>\n

The beginning of faith is learning to float, trust, depend, believe<\/em><\/p>\n

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Coda<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Summary: trouble, connection, humility, abandon<\/em><\/p>\n

New Beginnings<\/em><\/p>\n

Invitation to justifying grace, to Eucharist<\/em><\/p>\n

Ye that do truly and earnestly repent<\/em><\/p>\n

H Thurman:\u00a0 the ocean and the night<\/em><\/p>\n

~The Reverend Dr. Robert Allan Hill,
\nDean of Marsh Chapel<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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