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In the 1950s and 60s, South Bay (Los Angeles County) experienced significant population growth driven by the expansion of aerospace and related industries. In response to this demand, the Home Mission Department of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America organized the Lutheran Church of the Resurrection on October 21, 1951, starting with 99 members and Pastor Lyle Gangsei.
A California pastor, whose church burned amid the raging wildfires, says he wants to bring "hope" to people in the state, in spite of the difficult circumstances they face.. The people of ...
In Christian teachings, eternal life is not an inherent part of human existence, and is a unique gift from God, based on the model of the Resurrection of Jesus, viewed as a unique event through which death was conquered "once for all", permitting Christians to experience eternal life. [7]
The New Testament teaches that the Resurrection of Jesus is a foundation of the Christian faith. [136] Christians, through faith in the working of God [137] are spiritually resurrected with Jesus, and are redeemed so that they may walk in a new way of life. [138] In the teachings of the apostolic Church, Jesus' resurrection was seen as ...
In Christianity, resurrection most importantly concerns the resurrection of Jesus but also includes the resurrection of Judgment Day, known as the resurrection of the dead by those Christians who subscribe to the Nicene Creed (which is the majority of mainstream Christianity), as well as the resurrection miracles done by Jesus and the prophets ...
The Catholic Church does not believe in Christian universalism (i.e., all or most people go to heaven), in double predestination (i.e., some, most, or all people are destined to sin and hell), in Feeneyism (i.e., non-Catholics and excommunicated Catholics cannot be saved), or in how many people will go to heaven or hell (either most or few or ...
The first resurrection would be in a spiritual sense (the resurrection of the soul), according to Paul and John as participation, right now, in the resurrection of Christ through faith and baptism, according to Colossians 2:12 and Colossians 3:1 as occurring within the millennium interpreted as an indefinite period between the foundation of the ...
Analogously, the Via Lucis, when celebrated in fidelity to the Gospel text, can effectively convey a living understanding to the faithful of the second moment of the Paschal event, namely the Lord's Resurrection. The Via Lucis is potentially an excellent pedagogy of the faith, since "per crucem ad lucem" [through the Cross (one comes) to the ...