Who believes in us, trusts us and empowers us. CREEDS It could be said that a creed is a statement of what we believe. In all the major creeds of the church we confess what we believe about God. In this creed, we also wanted to affirm that God believes in us. By affirming that God believes in us, we are in fact saying that God’s original plan or dream
Who’s Love is the Life Force of the Universe. WHAT WE NEED I sometimes wish I had become a scientist. I have always been fascinated with the complexity of human biology, though I didn’t do well in my Biology 101 class at Carthage College. Probably because it was an Eight O’clock class in my freshman year. I read the other day that our bodies have around 37.2 trillion cells.
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We believe in God, the creator, Who’s Love is the life force of the Universe THE BLUEPRINT To quote Phyllis Diller, “If you are what you eat…I am going to eat a thin person.” In John’s Gospel, Jesus says, “God is Love.” It is not just what God does but who God is. I believe that God’s love is the very essence not just of God but of
We believe in God, the Creator. Who’s love is the life-force of the Universe. TWO CREATION STORIES In the book of Genesis, there are two main creation stories in the first two chapters. The first one begins with, “In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth.” The second creation story begins with almost the same line but switches the words heaven and earth in the order they appear.
We BELIEVE IN GOD, WHO’S LOVE IS THE LIFE FORCE OF THE UNIVERSE. DOES GOD CHANGE? I remember the day I first heard that God is evolving. It was in a Hebrew bible class where we were looking at a foundational story in the book of Exodus. Our professor pointed out that the Hebrew word translated in my NIV Study Bible as “I Am” could also be translated, “I
We Believe in God, Who’s love is the life force of the Universe I had a few reservations about writing a creed. So often churches separate themselves by proclaiming what they believe. It is as if what really matters is getting what we think about God exactly right . Often the statements of what they believe are more about what they don’t believe. To me, it is far better as
Each day during lent (except Sundays) I will publish a blog about the Spirit of Peace Creed that we use in worship at my churches. Feel free to join in on the conversation by leaving a comment.
We believe in God the creator; Who’s love is the life force of of the universe, Who believes in us, trusts us an empowers us, Who lives in us and through us and fills us with wonder. We believe in Jesus, God’s own son; Who shows through his life, the heart and character of God, Who lived to raise up the lowly and to bring peace to all people, Who loved
Welcome to my blog site. I am pastor Tim Tahtinen and I love to write about Theology. I pastor two churches in Milwaukee Wisconsin and this project is an attempt to put some understanding behind the creed we profess each Sunday. It is a creed I wrote while at Seminary while at LSTC and have been using now for 7 years. Please feel free to check it out and if