Forging Ploughshares

Road to Easter

Following the liturgical calendar leading to Easter, this sermon describes the character change of the new covenant described in Jeremiah through the life, death, and resurrection - and the high priestly ministry of Christ.

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The Cross as Creations Purpose

Paul Axton follows liturgical readings leading up to Easter. Here he explains what it means to be fallen and saved and how the cross takes us from one world to another.

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Following the Shepherd

Paul Axton concludes his sermon series on Hebrews.

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The Honor/Shame System of Hebrews

Paul Axton preaches on Hebrews 12:2 - Despising the Shame. It demonstrates the transvaluation taking place in Hebrews. It is still a system which accounts for honor but under a different mode of valuation.

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Living in the Apocalypse - Hebrews 12

Paul Axton continues his sermon series on Hebrews. Hebrews 12 pictures a present tense encounter with Mount Zion and the Heavenly Jerusalem. Bad apocalypse pictures ultimate destruction but biblical apocalypse pictures recreation from out of the midst of the the undoing of this world's principalities and powers.

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The Faith of the Martyrs - Hebrews 11:7ff

Paul Axton continues preaching on Hebrews. Chapter 11 characterizes faith as the capacity to face the reality of death and to trust God. This resurrection faith does not fall into the lie of denying or fearing death. But as with Martin Luther King Jr., and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, there is an acceptance of suffering and futility and a capacity for endurance to be found in living by the vision of an alternative through faith.

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The Objectivity of Faith

Paul Axton preaches on whether faith is subjective or objective.

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Hebrews 10 - Understanding the Work of Christ Through Two Pictures of the Temple

The temple as microcosmos an mirror of heaven emphasizes the immanence and transcendence of God respectively. Christ resolves this tension as true temple. At the same time the work of Christ and the the nature of God are apprehended against this background.

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Jesus As True Temple and True Sacrifice Defeats Death - He Does Not Die for God!

This sermon pictures the various rituals surrounding the temple as focused on cleansing from death. The ultimate cleansing is from the rebellion of sin and death - this is the meaning of the atoning death of Christ. This stands in direct contradiction to penal substitution.

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Jesus' Life Saves: Not His Death Alone - Hebrews 9

An explanation of Hebrews 9, often used to support penal substitution. Paul Axton argues that it is at the ascension of Jesus, not His death, that atonement is completely worked out.

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