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  • W Pat Cunningham avatar

    Where Is The Bloody City?

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Aug 6, 2024
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    To borrow from John Donne, “send not to know” where is the bloody city. We are the bloody city.

    Friday of the 18th Week in Course 2024 Where is the Bloody City? Assyria was the bloody city in the time of the prophet Nahum. Everybody knew it. They had conquered countries from central Africa up and down, east and west, all the way up to the area we call Ukraine. And they did it brutally. ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Can We Image Heaven Here On Earth?

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Aug 13, 2024
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    A look back at the history of God’s relationship as husband to Israel’s as wife, and Jesus's view of divorce and marriage.

    Friday of the 19th Sunday in course 2024 I looked up the first reading we just heard on a sermon website to which I frequently contribute, and discovered no sermons posted on the passage from the prophet Ezekiel. Frankly, I find the story pretty gruesome on first reading. But some Scripture can be ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Validating Our Christian Identity

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Mar 4, 2025
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    Lent is a time in which we engage our interior self with its brokenness, weakness and intentional wrongdoing. We are all sinners, but we are sinners endeavoring to become saints, by our faith and practice.

    Friday after Ash Wednesday 2025 A priest of my acquaintance many years ago was in conversation with a Lutheran minister. He asked the minister if he believed that Martin Luther had made any big mistakes setting up a parallel Christian church. The minister candidly admitted that he thought Luther ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Decision Day--Don't Wait

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Mar 10, 2025
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    We don’t know when our termination date will be. It could be later today or tomorrow. We don’t get to decide.

    Friday of the First Week in Lent 2025 Ask anybody of mature age what are the two most important dates of anyone’s life and you will get a potpourri of answers. The statisticians will say the dates of birth and death, because those dates control so many decisions and outcomes. The real answers, for ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Hosea--Is He A Loser And Chump? Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Mar 24, 2025
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    He fell in love with a woman who found herself lovers, lots of them. She was frequently unfaithful. Despite her infidelity, Hosea took her back time after time.

    Friday of the Third Week in Lent 2025 The prophet Hosea, if he lived in our modern culture, would be called a total loser, an inveterate chump. He was prophet to the northern kingdom of Israel and ministered during the reign of King Jeroboam II in the middle of the eighth century before Our Lord. ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    He Got Up... So You Can Too Series

    Contributed by Rudolf E. Y. Mensah on Apr 20, 2025
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    Today is not just another Sunday. It is Resurrection Sunday—the day death bowed, hell trembled, and the grave lost its grip!

    Sermon Title: "He Got Up... So You Can Too!" Scripture Text: Matthew 28:5-7 (NKJV) "But the angel answered and said to the women, ‘Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here; for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. ...read more

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    Denomination: Charismatic

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    God Does Write Straight With Crooked Lines

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Aug 16, 2025
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    We know, every one of us, how many times we have told God “Thy will be done” with our fingers crossed behind our backs. No, repentance must be our daily habit.

    Friday of the Twentieth Week in course 2025 (Memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary) The Book of Ruth is both unique and important for both Jews and Christians. Ruth was an outsider, a Moabite woman married to the son of the widow Naomi, a native of Bethlehem. When Naomi’s two sons ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Turn On The Light In The Room Of Gloom

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Dec 1, 2025
     | 95 views

    The whole process would be like turning on a light. And I don’t mean a little candle, but a big flood. If you stumble around in a dark room, you move slowly, hesitantly, and you are guarding against a fall.

    Friday of the First Week of Advent 2025 When we hear or read Biblical prophecy, our Western mindset frequently gets confused by the language used. The prophet Isaiah today especially needs to be read with understanding of the form being used. The critical little snippet that is the key to the ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Last Supper - Don’t Believe The Lie That You Are Not Worthy Of Redemption

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Mar 24, 2010
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    Do not believe the lie - you are not worthy of redemption. You are worth every drop of blood.

    Mark 14:12-14:26 Twelve men entered the Upper Room with Jesus for an intimate dinner together, eleven men would look back at the time as a time of powerful redemption, as a time of healing and communion – one man, he would look back with regret. Eleven men would break bread and share the cup ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Living Sacrifice

    Contributed by John Johnson on Oct 26, 2002
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     | 10,022 views

    We are living sacrifices

    A living Sacrifice Romans 12: 1-3 Living-Sacrifice. Now those two words, living sacrifice, compose in English what is called an oxymoron. An oxymoron is a combination of two seemingly contradictory words. It seems contradictory to say a living sacrifice. When we think of a sacrifice we usually ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Cheating Life

    Contributed by David Dewitt on Nov 28, 2001
    based on 11 ratings
     | 2,581 views

    Far too many people are living without hope or vitality and thus they are cheating life

    Cheating Life John 11 November 16, 1997 Morning Service 1. The aspect of Dead air: A. The best part of radio: The playing of record and D.J., the challenge of radio was to avoid dead air B. Why do we focus so much on the concept of death? What is it about death that seems to fascinate? 2. Break ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

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    What Is The One Thing In Life That Can Keep Me Going?

    Contributed by Ralph Andrus on Nov 20, 2006
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    Hope is the lever on the fulcrum of Christ that lifts the weight of the soul

    Rom 8:24 (Ill.) A number of years ago researchers performed an experiment to see the effect hope has on those undergoing hardship. Two sets of laboratory rats were placed in separate tubs of water. The researchers left one set in the water and found that within an hour they had all drowned. The ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Moving Way Beyond, "Are We There, Yet?”

    Contributed by Ric Feeney on Nov 10, 2007
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     | 2,478 views

    In John Ortberg’s, Love Beyond Reason, he refers to our questioning the journey and missing out on the trip. We’d do better if we let "Jesus Take the Wheel."

    In John Ortberg’s, Love Beyond Reason, he refers to our questioning the journey and missing out on the trip. We’d do better if we let "Jesus Take the Wheel." Jesus and “Time Travel” He moved backward...so He could get to where we are. We move forward...so we can be where He is. John ...read more

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    Denomination: Brethren

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    A Revolution Of Tenderness Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Mar 21, 2015
     | 3,642 views

    An opportunity exists in the world to turn away from solipsism and bring all humanity into communion.

    Thursday of 5th Week in Lent 2015 Joy of the Gospel Abraham is, as the Roman Canon says, our “father in faith.” He believed that, old as he and Sarah were, they would have a child, and by the power of the Lord, Sarah conceived and brought forth Isaac. But Isaac was not the real child ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Maundy Thursday And What God Wants Us To Be

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Mar 29, 2015
     | 4,586 views

    What are the washings that God has as gift for us?

    Maundy Thursday 2015 With what are we washed, followers of Christ? The first physical sign of an impending birth is a rushing of waters from the mother’s womb, as the sac that encloses the infant ruptures. That is one reason that water is connected with birth, and why it is most fitting ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic