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Sermons and Homilies from the Liturgies at Saint Christopher's Episcopal Church, in Portland, Texas
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Prayer as our Great High Priest Prayed
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Rogationtide: A Call to Prayer
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Yes, They’ll Know We are Christians by our Love
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Painting Horses Where They Don’t Belong: A Look at the Conversion of Saint Paul
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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What do we do with a Risen Jesus?
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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Confronting the Obstacles to Faithful Discipleship
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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O Death, Where is Thy Sting?
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Christ Became Obedient Unto Death
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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The Drama of the Maundy
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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In What is Your Confidence Placed?
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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New Creation, Ambassadorship, and Reconciliation
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Enduring the Tests Set Before Us
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Imitating Christ Jesus
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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The Lord Whom Ye Seek
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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Being the Family of God
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Looking for a True King
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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Evil in the Midst of Joy
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Adopted as to Gain our Inheritance
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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The Cosmic and Eternal Logos
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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The Divine Dilemma of the Incarnation
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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Holy Mary, Mother of God
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Dec 22, 2024 |
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“In the Fullness of Time”
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Dec 08, 2024 |
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Renovating Our Hearts
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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Why We Should Not Fear
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Nov 17, 2024 |
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What True Generosity Looks Like
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Nov 10, 2024 |
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Baptism: Change, Gift, Assembly
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Nov 03, 2024 |
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Honoring the Saints
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Nov 02, 2024 |
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From Physical Blindness to Spiritual Sight
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Oct 27, 2024 |
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The Priesthood of Melchizedek
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Oct 20, 2024 |
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Unburdening Life So You Can Follow Jesus
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Oct 13, 2024 |
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Marriage, Divorce, and the Body of Christ
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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Prayer Is Our Answer
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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Serving the Least to Proclaim the Gospel
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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The Cross Confirms The Messiah
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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Being Blinded by Outward Trappings
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Sep 22, 2024 |
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Do the Work!
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Sep 21, 2024 |
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Standing Firm Against the Powers of Darkness
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Sep 21, 2024 |
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T he Sermon from the Funeral Liturgy for Charlie Cotton
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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For the Life of the World
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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Being Imitators of God
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Remembering the Giver of Good Gifts
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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The Path that Ultimately Leads to Sin
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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From Alien to Radical Hospitality
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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The Blessing of Grace and Inheritance
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Jul 14, 2024 |
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Returning to Your Childhood Home
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Jul 07, 2024 |
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Life, Liberty, and Love
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Giving Out of Your Abundance
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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Becoming the Small Working Models of New Creation
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Jun 16, 2024 |
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Preparation for the Weight of Glory
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Jun 09, 2024 |
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Sabbath, Healing, and Mercy
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Jun 02, 2024 |
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A Sermon for a Memorial Day Requiem Mass
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May 31, 2024 |
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Finding the Trinity in the Everyday Life
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May 27, 2024 |
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Eucatastrophe, Lament, and the Gospel
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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We know love by this: the Shepherd who lays down his life.
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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Using Words When Necessary
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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Seeing with Divine Vision
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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We are Resurrection People
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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The Sabbath Day and the Harrowing of Hell
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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The Victory of the Virgin, the Tree and Death: A Sermon for Good Friday.
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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Learning to Love God as a little child.
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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What is the price of the betrayal of Jesus?
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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The Messiah is the Foolish Gift to the Nations
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Christ, our Great High Priest
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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What Role Are You Playing in the Passion of Our Lord?
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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Seeing Jesus Through Those Around You.
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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The Poison of the Serpent to the Antidote of the Cross
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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From Temple Cult to Final Sacrifice
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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Take up your cross, and lift it high
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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Enduring through Wilderness Living
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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Almsgiving, Prayer, and Fasting: An Ash Wednesday Sermon
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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From Glory to Jerusalem
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Feb 11, 2024 |
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Healing and Serving
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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The Funeral Sermon for Richard Fiedler
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Hearing the Voice of Authority
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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Baptism: The First Step in Sharing in Christ’s Ministry.
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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A Light that gives light to the Nations.
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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The Christmas Party isn’t over just yet!
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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The Word came and called us
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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Moving from the Darkness of the World to the Light of Christ
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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For with God nothing will be impossible.
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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Living in the Already, but not yet, with Joy
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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Making Room In Your Heart
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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Images of God for Advent
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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What makes a sheep a sheep?
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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Living Lives of Devoted Thanks
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Being Responsible with the Wealth of God
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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Which of the Bridesmaids are you?
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Teaching, Following, Doing
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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Rest is not death: A sermon for All Souls’ Day.
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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The Tyrannizing Image of Christ Jesus our Lord
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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The Generous Nature of a God Who Pays the Last
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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Multiplication, Debts and Forgiveness
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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The Gospel On One Foot
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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“Take up your Cross”, the Savior Said
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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“You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God.”
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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The Forgiveness of Joseph.
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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Who will be a Messenger of Peace?
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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Transfiguration: Our Response to the Glory
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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Using the Gifts of the Spirit.
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Hope: A Sermon for the Patronal Feast Day.
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Jul 30, 2023 |
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Sin and the Groaning of Creation
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Jul 23, 2023 |
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The Law and Life
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Jul 16, 2023 |
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The “Dos” and “Don’ts”
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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A Sermon for Independence Day
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Trusting and Faithfulness
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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The Prisoner and the Tomb: A Sermon as a Short Story
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Jun 25, 2023 |
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The Sending Out of the Twelve
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Jun 18, 2023 |
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The Promise to Abraham Fulfilled
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Jun 11, 2023 |
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Trinity, Creation, and Love
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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Pentecost, Torah, and Evangelism
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May 28, 2023 |
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Enduring through the Ordeals
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May 21, 2023 |
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Christ ascended to the heavens of heavens
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May 18, 2023 |
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Rogationtide: Learning to Pray.
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May 14, 2023 |
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The Funeral Sermon for Suzanne Thomas Cotton
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May 12, 2023 |
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Growing into Faith and Knowledge to Service and Priesthood.
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May 08, 2023 |
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What an Acts 2 Church looks like
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Apr 30, 2023 |
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The Pilgrimage of Faithful
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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In Sympathy with Saint Thomas
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Apr 16, 2023 |
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Whom are you looking for?
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Apr 09, 2023 |
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In the Beginning Again
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Apr 09, 2023 |
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What is Truth?
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Apr 08, 2023 |
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Within Earshot of the Cross
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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The Night of the Betrayer: A Homily for Spy Wednesday
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Dying Seeds; Following Servants
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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How close are you to Jesus: a Homily for Holy Monday
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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How to say, “I Love You.”
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Apr 02, 2023 |
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Can these bones live?
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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Was blind, but now I see
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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Wells, Water, and Baptism
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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Questions, questions, and more questions.
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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The World, the Flesh, and the Devil
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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Sanctify a Fast: A Sermon for Ash Wednesday
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Listen to Him
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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Choose the Way of Life.
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Feb 12, 2023 |
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Going through the Motions
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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In the Cross of Christ I Glory.
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Jan 29, 2023 |
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One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church
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Jan 22, 2023 |
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Come and See
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Jan 15, 2023 |
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All Kings Shall Bow Before Him
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Jan 07, 2023 |
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The Naming and the Covenant of God
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Jan 01, 2023 |
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In Him was Life
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Dec 25, 2022 |
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Come to the Manger
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Dec 25, 2022 |
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Joseph, dearest Joseph
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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Rejoicing through Doubt
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Dec 11, 2022 |
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Give the King your justice, O God
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Dec 04, 2022 |
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Cleaning our Hearts by Casting Out Darkness
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Nov 27, 2022 |
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Learning to Practice Thanksgiving: A Sermon for A National Day of Thanksgiving, 2022
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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The Kingship of Christ
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Nov 20, 2022 |
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The God of the Living
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Nov 06, 2022 |
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Grief is the Price we Pay for Love
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Lo, What a Cloud of Witnesses
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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The Transformation of Zacchaeus
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Oct 30, 2022 |
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The Story of Two Prayers
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Oct 23, 2022 |
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The Nagging Pray of Faith for Justice
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Oct 16, 2022 |
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Where Crisis and the Faithfulness of God Intersect
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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A Sermon for Saint Francis’ Day
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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The Art of Servanthood
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Oct 02, 2022 |
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Living while waiting on God’s Faithfulness
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Sep 25, 2022 |
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Becoming Lives of Prayer
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Sep 18, 2022 |
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The Perils of Being Lost
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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The Cost of the Cross
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Sep 04, 2022 |
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Taking the Wrong Bus
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Aug 28, 2022 |
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The Role of the Sabbath
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Learning about the Family Tree
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Aug 14, 2022 |
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The True Place of Possessions
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Aug 07, 2022 |
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Baptism, Vows, and Setting our Minds on Christ
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Jul 31, 2022 |
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What is a Patron Saint?
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Jul 31, 2022 |
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Thinking about what we pray
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Jul 24, 2022 |
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Putting Life into Balance
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Jul 17, 2022 |
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Being Merciful to our Neighbors
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Jul 10, 2022 |
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Love your Enemies, and Be at Peace
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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Go on your way
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Jul 03, 2022 |
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Christ has set you free.
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Jun 26, 2022 |
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Exorcism, Healing and the Justice of God
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Jun 19, 2022 |
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Trinity and the Imago Dei
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Jun 12, 2022 |
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"Peace I leave you"
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Jun 05, 2022 |
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The Law of Prayer is the Law of Belief
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May 29, 2022 |
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Why stand gazing into heaven?
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May 26, 2022 |
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Evil did not win
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May 26, 2022 |
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A Sermon for Rogation Sunday
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May 22, 2022 |
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Moving from assumptions to witness
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May 16, 2022 |
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Worthy is the Lamb that was slain
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May 08, 2022 |
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Moving from Fondness to Love
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May 01, 2022 |
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Believing in Faith
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Apr 24, 2022 |
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Are not our hearts burning?
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Welcome to the Eighth Day of the New Creation!
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Apr 17, 2022 |
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A Sermon for Easter written by Saint John Chrysostom, read by the Father John L. Blackburn.
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Apr 17, 2022 |
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Behold, the Man!
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Apr 16, 2022 |
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Thee, we adore, O Hidden Saviour, Thee: A Sermon for Maundy Thursday
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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The Betrayer: A Sermon for Wednesday in Holy Week
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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A Light to give Light to the Nations: A Sermon for Tuesday in Holy Week
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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The Servant, the Thief, and the Powerful: A Sermon for Monday in Holy Week
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Remembrance, Reenactment, and Relationship
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Apr 10, 2022 |
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The Fragrance of Worship
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Apr 03, 2022 |
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Dead Father, Dead Son; Living Father, Living Son
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Mar 27, 2022 |
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Repentance, Conversion, and Fig Trees
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Mar 20, 2022 |
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Being Citizens of Heaven
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Mar 13, 2022 |
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The Battle of the Two Kingdoms
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Mar 06, 2022 |
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Keeping a Holy Lent
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Transfigure this World
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Feb 27, 2022 |
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You want me to love who?!
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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The Sermon from the Burial Services for Elizabeth Brown and Susan Bradford
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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The Ever-Present "Now"
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Feb 13, 2022 |
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An Encounter in the Temple
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Feb 06, 2022 |
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Empty Jars
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Jan 16, 2022 |
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The Identity of Christ
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Jan 09, 2022 |
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Losing...and Finding Jesus
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Jan 02, 2022 |
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What Name do you wear?
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Jan 02, 2022 |
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Being "God-Bearers": A Sermon for the First Sunday after Christmas with a Reflection on the Life of The Most Rev'd Desmond Tutu
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Dec 26, 2021 |
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In Him was Life
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Dec 25, 2021 |
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"This, this is Christ the King."
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Dec 25, 2021 |
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Saint Thomas: Apostle, Missionary, Martyr
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Joy, Remembrance, and Expectation
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Dec 19, 2021 |
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Bearing Fruits of Repentance
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Dec 12, 2021 |
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Visitation and Redemption
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Dec 05, 2021 |
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Beginning at the End
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Nov 28, 2021 |
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Turning Thanksgiving into "Thanks-living"
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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King of my life I crown thee now
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Nov 21, 2021 |
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Destruction, Healing, Hope and Gratitude
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Nov 14, 2021 |
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The Scribes, the Widow and the Practice of Stewardship
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Nov 07, 2021 |
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The Souls of the Righteous
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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We are the Saints!
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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Sh'ma Yisrael
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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"Let me see again."
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Oct 24, 2021 |
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Be careful what you pray for!
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Oct 17, 2021 |
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Marriage and Restored Creation
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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Notice, Preach, and Build
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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The Practice of Prayer
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Sep 26, 2021 |
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G.O.A.T v Goat
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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Words: Blessings or Cursing
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Sep 12, 2021 |
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Interceding on behalf of others
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Sep 05, 2021 |
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Clean Hands, and Pots, and Pans
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Aug 29, 2021 |
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The Difficult Teaching
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Aug 22, 2021 |
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The Source of Life for the World
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Aug 15, 2021 |
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Jesus is the Living Bread
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Aug 08, 2021 |
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Prayer and Transfiguration
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Aug 07, 2021 |
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The Bread of Life to the World
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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Saint Christopher and His Influence around the Globe
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Aug 01, 2021 |
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The Sermon for the Dedication of our Icon of Saint Christopher, our Patron
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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Saint Christopher, our Patron
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Jul 25, 2021 |
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Sabbath and Restoration
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Jul 18, 2021 |
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The Truth of the Gospel against the Power of the World
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Jul 11, 2021 |
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Perfecting Power
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Jul 04, 2021 |
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Life, Healing, Restoration: The Director's Cut
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Jun 27, 2021 |
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Lord Jesus, Don't You Care?
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Jun 20, 2021 |
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If anyone is in Christ: New Creation!
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Jun 13, 2021 |
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Who are my Mother and my Brothers?
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Jun 06, 2021 |
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Trinity, Mystery, Love
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May 30, 2021 |
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Spirit, Empowerment, Boldness
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May 23, 2021 |
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Jesus, our Great Intercessor
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May 16, 2021 |
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The Power Through the Cross
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May 14, 2021 |
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What is to prevent these people?
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May 09, 2021 |
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Love shall be our token
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May 02, 2021 |
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Good Shepherd and Good Sheep
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Apr 25, 2021 |
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Rationalization v Knowledge
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Apr 18, 2021 |
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Faith v Empirical Verification
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Apr 11, 2021 |
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Awake, Arise, Lift Up Your Voice
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Apr 04, 2021 |
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The Paschal Homily of Saint John Chrysostom as read by The Rev'd John L. Blackburn
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Apr 04, 2021 |
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Shall I Crucify Your King?
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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Let the same mind be in you
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Mar 28, 2021 |
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Sir, We Would See Jesus
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Mar 21, 2021 |
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Remembering as an Act of Love
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Mar 14, 2021 |
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What is the Church for?
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Mar 07, 2021 |
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Because by your Holy Cross you have Redeemed the World
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Feb 28, 2021 |
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Yield Not to Temptation: The First Sunday in Lent, 2021
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Feb 21, 2021 |
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Transfigured and Changed.
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Feb 14, 2021 |
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Fever, Healing, Service
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Feb 07, 2021 |
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Unclean, Stained and Healed
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Jan 31, 2021 |
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Following Immediately
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Jan 24, 2021 |
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The Boy Who Went on a Journey
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Jan 17, 2021 |
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The Vows We Make
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Jan 17, 2021 |
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Epiphany and Manifestation
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Jan 17, 2021 |
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Power tends to Corrupt
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Jan 03, 2021 |
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What is in a Name?
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Jan 03, 2021 |
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Adoption, Grace and Inheritance
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Dec 27, 2020 |
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Word, Life and Light
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Dec 25, 2020 |
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God Breaks into the Ordinariness of this Life
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Dec 25, 2020 |
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The Sermon from the Ordination of The Rev'd John L. Blackburn to the Priesthood
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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"Behold the Handmaid of the Lord!"
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Dec 20, 2020 |
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Stir up thy power, O Lord
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Dec 13, 2020 |
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The Long Wait
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Dec 06, 2020 |
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The King is coming; be ready to greet him
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Nov 29, 2020 |
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"You did it to me": The Gospel of the Five Fingers
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Nov 22, 2020 |
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Experiencing the Gifts that are Given by Others
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Nov 15, 2020 |
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...And I mean to be one too!
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Nov 01, 2020 |
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A Personal Description of the Spiritual Discipline of Stewardship
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Oct 25, 2020 |
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Caesar, God and Right Order
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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Idolatry v Stewardship: Putting our Resources into Right Order
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Oct 11, 2020 |
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The Ten Commandments, Sanctification, and Politics
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Oct 04, 2020 |
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Mind, Unity, Trinity
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Sep 27, 2020 |
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There is grace enough for thousands
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Sep 20, 2020 |
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How to treat Gentiles and Tax Collectors
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Sep 06, 2020 |
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Losing your Life
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Aug 30, 2020 |
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Who do people say that I am?
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Aug 23, 2020 |
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When the Storms of Life are Raging.
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Aug 09, 2020 |
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When Not Enough is More Than Enough
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Aug 02, 2020 |
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The Homily from Dick Moser's Funeral Service, 1 August 2020
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Aug 02, 2020 |
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Expecting the Unexpected
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Jul 26, 2020 |
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Ordinary to Unordinary
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Jul 19, 2020 |
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The Parable of the Soil
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Jul 12, 2020 |
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Being Christophers to the World
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Jul 05, 2020 |