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Paul Andrew
Contributing sermons since Nov 12, 2016
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Third Sunday Of Lent, Year C- Exhausting The Soil Or Bearing Fruit
Contributed on Feb 8, 2025
I believe that there are a number of Christians living in their spiritual grace period
Jerry Flury, who once worked in the insurance industry, said, “I constantly had to deal with people seeking to maintain their policies perpetually in what they referred to as the policy’s grace period. A grace period is defined as the additional period of time a lender, or an insurance policy ...read more
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Second Sunday Of Lent: Transfiguration Year C-- Higher Leagues
Contributed on Feb 8, 2025
Lessons from the heavenly three and the earthly three
There was a baseball player, Brooks Robinson, former third baseman of the Baltimore Orioles. In his entire 23-year career, he is considered the greatest defensive third baseman in major league history. “It was often said of Brooks that he played third base as if he "came down from a higher ...read more
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First Sunday Of Lent, Year C--Assume The Power, The Devil Told Him
Contributed on Feb 7, 2025
An image or fantasy is presented to me...
Satan tries to drive a wedge between Jesus and his Father. “If you are the Son of God,” Satan begins two his temptations. Same with us, with baptism, “If you are a child of God.” Doubting baptismal identity. Lent is a time of self-appraisal and accountability. When we remember and reflect on our ...read more
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Eighth Sunday In Ordinary Time Year C- An Ophthalmologist And A Psychologist
Contributed on Jan 27, 2025
We get impatient with others who represent aspects of ourselves that we have pushed away
Doctor Jesus is like an ophthalmologist and a psychologist in our Gospel today. He is speaking about projection. We get impatient with others who represent aspects of ourselves that we have pushed away.1 We are aware of all the mitigating factors that go into our own mistakes but not those ...read more
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Seventh Sunday In Ordinary Time, Year C -- The Word Nonviolent Can Be An Adjective, It Modifies How
Contributed on Jan 20, 2025
Jesus is asking us today not so much as “how can I find a gracious God? But “How can I find God in my enemy?” And, how can we be children of God in real life without loving our enemies?
The fictional Klingon language from Star Trek has no words for love. Of course, the Klingons were creatures of pure logic, not emotion. So, the closest words for “love” in their language were “honor” or “unhate.” That would be easy for us if we could define love simply as “unhating” others. ...read more
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God’s Blessing Signifies A Sharing In God’s Life And Power.
Contributed on Dec 9, 2017