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Part of a Greater Story
HIStory
West Laurel Hill Cemetery
1Paul,
an Apostle – sent not from men nor by
man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father,
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who raised him from the dead – and all the
brothers with me, To the churches in Galatia:
3Grace and peace to you from God our Father
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and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for
our sins to rescue us from the present evil age,
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according to the will of our God and Father, to
whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Galatians 1:1-5
An Historical Jewish Context
Judaizers rooted in History & Tradition
An Historical Hellenistic Context
Hellenism & the Rejection of History
Is the world normal?
What it ought to be like - Creation
What it is like - The Fall
What it can be like - Redemption
What it will be like - Restoration
We are Rooted in the Story of God…
Living in tension among various ways of
approaching life.
Hegel’s Dialectics
thesis, antithesis, synthesis
Truth never reaches any absolutes
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Nietzsche - God is Dead
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Sartre - Existentialism - the Blank Slate
WOODY ALLEN: That's quite a lovely Jackson
Pollock, isn't it?
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GIRL IN MUSEUM: Yes it is.
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WOODY ALLEN: What does it say to you?
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GIRL IN MUSEUM: It restates the negativeness of the
universe, the hideous lonely emptiness of existence,
nothingness, the predicament of man forced to live in a
barren, godless eternity, like a tiny flame flickering in
an immense void, with nothing but waste, horror, and
degradation, forming a useless bleak straightjacket in a
black absurd cosmos.
WOODY ALLEN: What are you doing Saturday
night?
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GIRL IN MUSEUM: Committing suicide.
WOODY ALLEN: What about Friday night?
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GIRL IN MUSEUM: [leaves silently]
Are you a Blank Slate?
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General & Special Revelation of who we are!
Morality, Standards of Holiness
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You are part of HIStory moving towards
what it will be!
No One’s Playing by the Rules!
Stand Still & Sink
6 Reasons Christians
need the Gospel all the time
6 Reasons Christians
need the Gospel all the time
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1:6 We can turn from it
2:11-14 We can be deceived and are capable of
laying aside the Gospel
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3:1-3 We can forsake the Spirit
4:15 We can lose our Joy
5:3-4 We can fall from Grace
6:14 We can grow proud
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Why do we do what we do?
A joy to serve God as part of HIStory!
Sadako Sasaki
a thousand
paper cranes
Seeing yourself in the story
transforms your life
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The continual journey
of HIStory together