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Robert E. Webber

June 10, 2013: God’s “Do Over”

God is doing a new thing. It is complex, and yet it can be summarized in a single word. The ancient church called it recapitulation. The word means, “to do over again.” In Jesus Christ, God does creation “over again.” Jesus Christ is the second creation, the new beginning of creation and creatures. God’s embrace...
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June 3, 2013: God’s Two Hands

Creation is ongoing in the sense that God is involved in creation with his own two hands—incarnate Word and Spirit—embracing the world to bring it into its final destination, the new heavens and the new earth. Christ has conquered sin and death by his death and resurrection, and in his return, he will put evil...
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May 27, 2013: True Spirituality: Jesus’ Embrace

Christian spirituality is not a journey into self as if spirituality is found in the deep recesses of our nature, hidden inside of us, waiting for release. No, true Christian spirituality is the embrace of Jesus, who, united to God, restores our union with God that we lost because of sin. This is how the...
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May 20, 2013: Christian Community Mirrors God

The Christian church . . . has always been committed to a triune experience and understanding of God, but most preachers seldom preach on this subject. The discipline of addressing the congregation once a year on the meaning of triune faith and worship is helpful and necessary. . . . Christians need to know ....
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May 13, 2013: Christian Year Tells the Story

Pentecost Sunday ends the extraordinary season that began on the first Sunday of Advent. In approximately six months the church has been carried through all the saving events of God—his incarnation, manifestation to the world, life, death, resurrection, and ascension as well as the coming of the Holy Spirit. All these crucial events form faith...
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May 6, 2013: Signs of Jesus’ Presence

If Jesus ascended into heaven, has he left any signs of his presence among us? . . . If we wish to form congregational and personal spirituality, we will call attention to the ascended Lord who eternally intercedes for us and is always with us through the church and the signs of our identity with...
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April 29, 2013: God’s Divine Embrace in Words

The contours of God’s divine embrace are captured in a few words: God, creation, fall, incarnation, death and resurrection, re-creation, new heavens and new earth. . . . The spiritual life that we live in God’s creation is situated in this narrative, the story of God’s world. This is the embrace that reads the whole...
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April 22, 2013: Robert Webber Tribute

In memory of our founder and friend, Bob Webber (Nov 27, 1933 — Apr 27, 2007). Though deeply missed, his vision thrives. Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might (Eccl 9:10). In his resurrection [Jesus] conquered the results of sin—which is death—so that death is not the last word written...
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April 15, 2013: The Only Solution

We are all part of the problem. . . . But only one man is the solution, and his name is Jesus. -Robert E. Webber, The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2006), 111.
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April 8, 2013: Every Sunday a “Little Easter”

Every Sunday is a “little Easter.” Every Sunday of the year is a celebration of the Easter event. The work of the people in “doing the Christ event” through memory and hope is the source for personal and corporate formation into resurrection spirituality. -Robert E. Webber, Ancient-Future Time: Forming Spirituality through the Christian Year (Grand...
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April 1, 2013: Easter: It Takes a Season

The primary metaphor for the Easter season is the church as the resurrected people living a resurrected spirituality. Because of Easter we are in union with Christ and are called to live in our baptismal identity in his resurrection. This essential theme of Easter cannot be communicated in a day. It takes a season. -Robert...
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March 25, 2013: Easter Spirituality

The biblical metaphor for Easter spirituality is found in baptism. The baptized life is a life that is lived in the pattern of death and resurrection. . . . This is a daily, existential, moment-by-moment experience as we choose in this or that situation to die to the sins for which Christ died and choose...
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March 18, 2013: Fully Human

The spiritual life is a calling to become fully human after the likeness of Christ, who, being united with God, has shown us what humanity, united to God, was intended to be. -Robert E. Webber, The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2006), 103.
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March 11, 2013: Spirituality Is Union With God

Spirituality is our union with God through our union with Jesus Christ accomplished by the power of the Holy Spirit. The symbol of this union for the Christian is baptism. The spiritual life that results from this union is dying to sin and rising to the new life in Christ by the Spirit. The means...
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March 4, 2013: Cheerleading for Jesus

Worshipers are not a cheering section for God. The problem with this kind of worship is not only that it is an accommodation to culture but that it is also a severe example of self-situated spirituality. -Robert E. Webber, The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2006), 95.
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