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A sermon preached on The Tenth Sunday After Trinity (The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost) at The Anglican Church of St. Thomas the Apostle, Kefalas, Crete, August 16, 2020 11:00 am. The texts read in church were Genesis 45:1-15, Psalm 133, … Continue reading
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Tagged Daoism, Huaianzi, Multiple Levels of Meaning to an Event, Multiple Meanings to the Death of Jesus, Pentecost 11, Polyvalence, The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, The Farmer Whose Horse Ran Away, The Fog of History, The Tenth Sunday after Trinity, Trinity X, Who sold Joseph into slaver?
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“Not Long After the Bible Began”
A sermon preached on The Ninth Sunday After Trinity (The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost) at The Anglican Church of St. Thomas the Apostle, Kefalas, Crete, July 12, 2020 11:00 am. Has anyone here ever seen Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor … Continue reading
We are Climbing Jacob’s Ladder
A sermon preached on The Sixth Sunday After Trinity (The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost) at The Anglican Church of St. Thomas the Apostle, Kefalas, Crete, July 12, 2020 11:00 am. The readings were e Genesis 28:10-19a, Psalm 139: 1-11, 23-24, … Continue reading
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Tagged Beth El, Bethel, Jacob's Ladder, John Lewis, We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder
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Confessions of a Conflict Junkie
A sermon preached on The Fifth Sunday after Trinity (the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost) at The Anglican Church of St. Thomas the Apostle, Kefalas, Crete on July 12, 2020 11:00 am. The readings were : Genesis 25:19-34, Psalm 119:105-112, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Conflict, Conflict in the Church, Conflict Management, Conflict Resolution, Jacob and Esau
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I Commend My Spirit
A sermon preached on The Patronal Feast of St Thomas the Apostle (transferred from July 3) at The Anglican Church of St. Thomas the Apostle, Kefalas, Crete on July 5, 2020 11:00 am The readings were: Habakkuk 2.1-4, Psalm 31.1-6, … Continue reading
The Failure of Abraham and the Horror of God
A sermon preached on The Third Sunday after Trinity at The Anglican Church of St. Thomas the Apostle, Kefalas, Crete June 28, 2020 11:00 am The readings we used at St Thomas’s were : Genesis 22:1-14, Psalm 13, and Matthew … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham and Isaac, Justice, The Akedah, The Binding of Isaac, Value of a Preventable Fatality
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Expelling Hagar | The Response of God
A sermon preached on the Second Sunday after Trinity at The Anglican Church of St. Thomas the Apostle, Kefalas, Crete on May 31, 2020 11:00 am The readings used were Genesis 21:8-21, Psalm 86:1-10, 16-17, and Matthew 10:24-39. So she … Continue reading
Is the Holy Spirit Among Us?
A sermon preached (while wearing a mask) on Pentecost Sunday: The Fiftieth Day of Easter at The Anglican Church of St. Thomas the Apostle, Kefalas, Crete May 31, 2020 11:00 am, somewhat rewritten and expanded. The readings we used, from … Continue reading
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Tagged Azusa Street Revival, Cessation of Spiritual Gifts, Charismatic Movement, Holy Sprit, Pentecostalism
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The New Witnesses
A sermon preached (in a different form) on The Seventh Sunday of Easter, May 24, 2020 11:00 am at The Anglican Church of St. Thomas the Apostle, Kefalas, Crete in the Year of the Great Pandemic “But you will receive … Continue reading
Lessons from the Areopagus
A sermon preached while wearing a PPE mask, on The Sixth Sunday of Easter, May 17, 2020 11:00 am at The Anglican Church of St. Thomas the Apostle, Kefalas, Crete We used as our readings Acts 17:16-34 (expanded from what … Continue reading
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Tagged Areopagus, Evangelism, Paul at the Areopagus, Paul in Athens
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