An address given for students and faculty

A Defense of the Redemptive Power of the Cross of Christ in Light of the Ministry of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and the Death of George Floyd

In this lecture for United Lutheran Seminary, I seek to defend the biblical conviction that the cross of Jesus is the atoning sacrifice for our sins and is a call for radical solidarity with one another against the thesis of new theologians such as Richard Rohr that would seek to draw a wedge between the earthly ministry of Jesus and his execution. According to contemporary theologians, the death of Jesus is a horrendous tragedy and should not be held up as a sign of anything other than a great tragedy.

However, as a committed Christian who believes in the atoning power of Jesus’ death for the forgiveness of my sins, I have submitted this lecture responding to these claims drawing on contemporary history in the 20th Century and events in the 21st pointing out how indebted we are to the message of the cross. While I emphasize these historic moments, I offer neither a conservative of liberal political affirmation of them, but only list them as recent examples where humanity was called to respond with love and protest as a result of their conviction of the atoning power and suffering.

A brief overview of my journey to churches and parish communities throughout the Hudson Valley. For United Lutheran Seminary.

A brief overview of two particular orders for United Lutheran Seminary

A review for United Lutheran Seminary

Evangelical Lutheran seminarian, John Evans discusses with childhood friend, Matthew Lewis, perspectives on the Immaculate Conception.

A brief overview of Psalm 91 in its context as a deliverance prayer, and the spiritual warfare we all face.

Even in many self-proclaimed conservative Bible colleges, seminaries, and churches, the events of the fall of man, the ancient flood, and many other passages of the Bible are approached as largely allegorical. However, the authors of the New Testament and the so-called historical Jesus Himself thoroughly believed in those events and people as historically reliable.

In this episode, student of theology, John Evans offers his own personal perspective on the powerful testimony of Jesus regarding the veracity of the Hebrew Bible and scripture as a whole.