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Dealing with Power
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
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…
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A path to love
For Sunday, the Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost Collect Almighty and everlasting God, in Christ you have revealed your glory among the nations: Preserve the works of your mercy, that your Church throughout the world may persevere with steadfast faith in the confession of your Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with…
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About the Feeding
For SundayNinth Sunday after Pentecost Collect O God, the protector of all who trust in you, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy: Increase and multiply upon us your mercy; that, with you as our ruler and guide, we may so pass through things temporal, that we lose not the things eternal; through Jesus…
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The Power Inside
We read a gospel filled with Jesus’s surprising power. In what ways do we continue to be surprised by that power? Jesus and the incredible possibleProper 9B | Mark 6:1-13 This morning’s gospel has two parts. Two parts that go together. And these two parts fit into an ongoing story. A story that isn’t just…
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Limits of Power / Limits of Belief
For SundaySixth Sunday after Pentecost Collect O God, you have taught us to keep all your commandments by loving you and our neighbor: Grant us the grace of your Holy Spirit, that we may be devoted to you with our whole heart, and united to one another with pure affection; through Jesus Christ our Lord,…
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Extraordinary Power
In the gospel of Mark, we get a series of stories which reveal Jesus’s true power. Which far exceeds everyone’s expectations.
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Driven by Faith or Fear?
For SundayFifth Sunday after Pentecost Collect Almighty God, you have built your Church upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone: Grant us so to be joined together in unity of spirit by their teaching, that we may be made a holy temple acceptable to you; through Jesus…