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  • Deficiencies That Need Healing By The Gospel Of Joy Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 21, 2015
     | 3,579 views

    Both Christian and secular cultures will benefit by understanding the Joy of the Gospel, but the Church must approach different cultures with respect.

    Thursday of the First Week in Lent Joy of the Gospel Today we hear from Jesus a restatement of the Golden Rule: “whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them; for this is the law and the prophets.” And this is Torah, this is the prophetic message. We want people to treat ...read more

  • The Bible, Our Foundation, 3.the God-Breathed Word Series

    Contributed by Bob Faulkner on Apr 20, 2015
     | 4,532 views

    The Bible is not just "inspiring", it is breathed from Heaven. That is the claim we make. Do we believe it?

    2. Inspiration Jesus is the Fullness of the Word of God, God's communication to us. But the written Word, which is all about Jesus, is also living and authoritative. We often use the Bible to settle theological disputes. It is important to remember that the Bible speaks not only of theology, but of ...read more

  • Ash Wednesday: Confronting Our Sins, Embracing Our Vulnerabilities

    Contributed by Fr. Rian Adams on Apr 6, 2020
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,755 views

    Ash Wednesday sermon about confronting our sins, but how that is a call to vulnerability by the Holy Spirit

    Ash Wednesday: At one time Advent was my favorite season of the church year. The happiness, the joy of anticipation, the hope of a manger, the birth of a child… it all added a hopeful newness to my soul. But our culture ruined Christmas with the rabid consumerism and those lame made for TV ...read more

  • The Easter Witness Of God's Love

    Contributed by Ryan Ferwerda on Apr 19, 2020
     | 4,749 views

    What is Easter all about? What does Jesus' death and resurrection mean for our lives? These are the central questions of the seven-week Easter season. We may not be able to fully understand the meaning of these questions answers, but that does not stop us from bearing witness to those answers.

    What is Easter all about? What does Jesus’ death and resurrection mean for our lives? These are the questions that have been on my mind and heart this past week. Is Easter a one-day holiday in the spring where we simply gather with family for a nice meal, maybe exchange small gifts, hunting ...read more

  • No Mere Consideration: The Apologetic Quandaries Found In The Lewis Classic

    Contributed by Frederick Meekins on May 1, 2015
     | 2,384 views

    No Mere Consideration: The Apologetic Quandaries Found In The Lewis Classic

    Psalms 14:1 says, “The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God'.” Only those seeking to live in utter irrationality can ignore the arguments made in favor of the God of the Bible by C.S. Lewis in “Mere Christianity”. Three of the most compelling issues the skeptic will ...read more

  • Justified By Faith And Living In Love Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jan 6, 2018
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,408 views

    “Luther’s expression sola fide is true if faith is not opposed to charity, to love.”

    Thursday After Epiphany 2018 Reformation/Revolution The action of the Israelites and the response of the Philistines we have heard proclaimed from the first book of Samuel help us see the two primitive and wrong conceptions of the divine. For the Israelites, their God was the God of Moses who had ...read more

  • The Glory We Share With The Father And Son

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on May 12, 2018
     | 2,723 views

    St. Gregory of Nyssa, and other Fathers of the Church, teach that the glory of the Father and the Son is the Holy Spirit, who is love. The glory we are given is the Holy Spirit who enables us to image Christ in our world.

    Thursday of the 7th Week of Easter 2018 St. Paschal Baylon The prayer of Jesus we just heard from St. John is part of the High Priestly Prayer Our Lord offered at the Last Supper. If you look carefully at it, you might call it the first Eucharistic Prayer, and here you find Christ offering His ...read more

  • Inside Out Means Looking Pass Me Just So You Can Know Me

    Contributed by Preacher Fo Real on Feb 20, 2014
     | 4,924 views

    Viewing People From The Inside Out Is Looking Pass The Outside So You Can Truly Know Them. It Is The Way God Sees Us And The Only Way We Should View Ourselves And Others In The World.

    The last few years of the 1960's were some of the most turbulent times for the African-American community. However, as a lad lost inside the safe and carefree world of my infancy, I did not have a clue the world saw me as inferior to the Caucasian race. I did not own this widely held notion because ...read more

  • The Purpose Of Liturgy Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jan 4, 2013
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,916 views

    We need to understand what the Council Fathers intended for Liturgy, and the two things most people think they wanted which are not what they actually said they wanted.

    Monday after Epiphany 7 January 2012 Sacrosanctum Concilium The mission of the Church on earth is exactly the same as the mission of Jesus during His thirty-some years on earth. He was, and we must be, the fulfillment of the twin commandment of God: love God with all our hearts and love our ...read more

  • A Man Born Blind

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Nov 30, 2013
    based on 7 ratings
     | 10,555 views

    Jesus accepts the worship of those who believe in Him.

    A MAN BORN BLIND. John 9. This whole chapter contains the account of the healing of a man born blind, and provides a commentary on the significance of this the sixth “sign” in John’s Gospel. The man born blind (John 9:1) represents every man, for just as he was born without physical sight, so ...read more

  • Balancing Parental Authority & Childhood Well Being

    Contributed by Frederick Meekins on Mar 31, 2014
     | 2,504 views

    Balancing Parental Authority & Childhood Well Being

    Traditionally, there are few things American cherish more than the freedom of religion as embodied by the First Amendment and their families. Normally, these ideals do not conflict all that much since these work together to allow the greatest good for the greatest number. However, as aberrant ...read more

  • What Is Radical Hyper Grace Series

    Contributed by Alex Galsim on Nov 11, 2020
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,171 views

    Grace is what differs true Christianity from all religions of the world. Grace is not only a lesson, a subject or an attribute of God, grace is the personification of Jesus. Radical Jesus means radical grace.

    WHAT IS RADICAL HYPER GRACE? Introduction: During a British conference on comparative religions, experts from around the world debated what, if any, belief was unique to the Christian faith. They began eliminating possibilities. Incarnation? Other religions had different versions of gods' ...read more

  • Exercising Prophetic Gifts In A Time Of Trouble Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jun 6, 2020
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,990 views

    In every age the Holy Spirit does these wonders, and in our present difficulty that same Spirit is doing it again.

    Tuesday of the Tenth Week in Course In our era we are experiencing a dislocation of everything we routinely counted on to anchor our existence, are we not? Many of us in the West define ourselves by our occupation, our plans, our religious practices, our social interactions. And for most of us ...read more

  • An Order Of Precedence

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Jun 28, 2020
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,794 views

    The place of children in the Church. Attitudes to riches.

    AN ORDER OF PRECEDENCE. Matthew 19:13-30. 1. In today’s passage, we see the disciples forbidding those who would bring little children to Jesus (Matthew 19:13). Sometimes people do have this strange notion that ‘Church’ is not for children. However, the Scriptures NEVER exclude children. The ...read more

  • Restoring The Marriage Covenant Between God And His People Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jul 4, 2020
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,263 views

    What is the end we are pursuing as a nation as we work our way out of this prison?

    Tuesday of the 14th Week in Course 2020 Plague Year Homilies The prophet Hosea saw more clearly than many of the other Israelite prophets that the many problems facing the breakaway kingdom of Israel boiled down to infidelity. The covenant that God had made with them in the desert hundreds of ...read more