Forging Ploughshares

Paul Axton preaches on the ultimate sin identified with Judas: handing over Jesus. This sermon demonstrates how this ultimate sin is one that is shared by the Apostles and which is specifically confronted by Jesus.

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Paul Axton compares two functions of language as typefied at Babel and Pentecost.

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Paul Axton preaches on two notions of truth, compared and contrasted as they come into conflict during the trial of Jesus. 

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Paul Axton examines alternative theories of predestination and arrives at a resolution that is neither Calvinist nor Pelagian.

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Fire, torture, punishment, and discipline are depicted as purifying. In 1 Cor 3:11-17 - fire purifies and saves while some are depicted as being annihilated. There is no eternal conscious torment depicted in Scripture. In this sermon, Paul Axton examines terms translated as eternal and punishment to suggest that "the chastening of that Age" is neither eternal nor retributive.

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This sermon follows Paul Axton's recent blog suggesting that the trial of Jesus forever suspends absolute notions of sovereignty and justice.

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Paul Axton preaches on passages describing the narrow way and those depicting an all inclusive salvation which give us theological fundamentalism and various forms of universalism. The first step toward overcoming this problem is to recognize salvation is not from eternal torturous existence but from the universal problem of sin and death.

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Paul Axton uses James and Frederick Douglas to describe how religion becomes evil through becoming deaf to the oppressed.

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Paul Axton continues his sermon series leading up to Easter. Several of the liturgical readings surrounding Palm Sunday are referenced leading up to the crucifixion and resurrection.

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