Sermons, meditations, reflections and prayers based on the words of Karl Barth
based on Church Dogmatics II.2 paragraph 32 God is not an abstraction nor is it possible to speak of God in general terms. God is always God in particular. God is the God who does definite and particular things. God is the God who created this creation. God is the God who elected this people, …
A prayer based on Church Dogmatics II.2 paragraph 32 Christ you are the one to whom we must look. You one from whom we must receive. You are the one to who we must strive. And you you are the one to whom we must testify. Give us grace to look, receive, strive and testify …
A prayer of adoration based on Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics II.2 paragraph 32 Loving God, we know what you are not. Your freedom is not caprice. Your mystery is not blindness toward us. Your righteousness is not merely assertion. You are not a tyrant. You never hate, nor are you ever indifferent. You will not …
A collect based on Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics I.2 paragraph 15.3 Loving God, we have no capacity of our own to know you, or to come close to you. But you come to us born of the Virgin Mary. That birth brings you close to us and gives us the means to know you. Grant …