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The Cost of Discipleship – Lent 2025
In a time of rising authoritarianism, deep division, and political corruption, what does it mean to truly follow Jesus? This Lent, we invite you on a journey of faith, resistance, and costly grace through our sermon series on The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer, a pastor and theologian who stood against the Nazi regime, challenges us to reject “cheap grace”—a faith without sacrifice—and instead embrace the radical, transformative call of Jesus. In a world where justice is often…
“Salvation by Allegiance Alone” (Ephesians 2.1-10)
We bring all of our selves to everything we interpret, including assumptions we have based on the influence of the cultures around us. When we come to this week’s text, Ephesians 2.1-10, many of us have been influenced by Modern, Western culture, which has conditioned us to understand the concept of “faith” as opposed to “works”. This is because of the view developed since the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth-century. But, we want to understand faith in Christ as it…