Last Sunday of Pentecost
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Dealing with Power
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The Last Sunday after Pentecost – Proper 29BJohn 18:33-37 Collect Almighty and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things in your well-beloved Son, the King of kings and Lord of lords: Mercifully grant that the peoples of the earth, divided and enslaved by sin, may be freed and brought together under his…
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Kings and the price of granting supremacy
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We are all familiar with the saying “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” – John Dalberg-Acton. We also know that it doesn’t come from the Bible but from a historian, John Dalberg-Acton. OK, we know the first part, I had to look up who actually wrote it. This is also the stuff…