by Justin Marple | Jul 4, 2021 | Romans, TEACHING
What follows is the Great Thanksgiving Prayer based on Romans that I wrote for worship this morning at Cleveland Drive Presbyterian Church. Most of the lines of this Great Thanksgiving Prayer paraphrase various verses of Romans, conflate more than one verse in Romans...
by Justin Marple | Nov 10, 2019 | General Teachings, TEACHING
Be appalled, O heavens, at this: be shocked, be utterly desolate, declares YHWH, for my people have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water (Jeremiah 2:12f, cf. Jeremiah 17:13) Jesus...
by Justin Marple | Nov 3, 2019 | General Teachings, TEACHING
A witness in the wilderness came to baptize with water; He was waiting and watching for the Spirit’s manifestation To come to rest upon the one and only Son of the Potter. “Behold, the Lamb of God,” were his words of revelation; After me, He was...
by Justin Marple | Nov 1, 2019 | General Teachings, TEACHING
Now I’m one of those Presbyterians who believe in women’s ordination, paedo-communion, and the framework view of Genesis 1:1-2:3 (on this view see my blog post here), and who serves as a minister of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). ...
by Justin Marple | Oct 28, 2019 | TEACHING
When I heard the story of John 9 on Sunday again, my mind connected it with the theme of the glory-Temple in Scripture. It is a theme that literally runs from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22, but I want to focus on a somewhat smaller part of that story. To be even more...
by Justin Marple | Oct 18, 2019 | TEACHING
Below is the paper that I submitted at Gettysburg College for the history course on Colonial America. Adam Miller (an English spelling of his German surname often rendered Mueller) is one of my ancestors mentioned in the paper. Given what is said about the Lutherans...
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