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  • Christopher Martin avatar

    The Road From Palms To Passion

    Contributed by Christopher Martin on Mar 15, 2008
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    A Palm Sunday sermon illustraing the turn of events from the joyful shouts of "Hosanna" on Palm Sunday to "Crucify Him" on Good Friday.

    As some of you may be aware, today has two names on the church calendar. Most of you know today by it’s more common name, Palm Sunday. It’s the day the Sunday School children process into the church, waving their palm branches, and we as a congregation sing “Hosanna, Loud Hosanna”, remembering ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • W Pat Cunningham avatar

    False Gods, No God, And The Divine Mercy Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Apr 7, 2012
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    The Divine mercy is real, active, working in individuals and especially in the history of the Church.

    Divine Mercy Sunday 2012 Spirit of the Liturgy “As newborn babies, alleluia, desire the pure milk of the Spirit, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.” With these words of the Introit, we began our sacrifice of praise today. With these words, we began our celebration of Divine Mercy. Human ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Learning The Ways Of Love Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on May 5, 2012
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    We can learn love from Jesus and Mary

    Mother’s Day 2012 Spirit of the Liturgy To whom was Jesus preaching this incredible Last Supper sermon on love? Let’s make a short list: • Judas, the revolutionary and embezzler who had already sold Jesus out to the Jews • Simon, the Zealot, who most likely had a history ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Don't Hold Back

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 14, 2015
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    Prayer, fasting and tithing are little gifts we give so that God's power can fill up our weakness.

    First Sunday in Lent 2015 “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and believe in the gospel.” These words of Jesus, recorded by St. Mark for the Church at Rome, conclude the shortest of the accounts of Christ’s forty day retreat in the wilderness near ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    "Ephpheta, Be Thou Opened”

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jul 30, 2018
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    We need to get very, very serious about promoting priestly vocations

    Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost Extraordinary Form “Ephpheta, be thou opened,” Jesus said, after groaning, “and immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment to his speech was loosed, and he spoke clearly.” Come to any baptism–as we’ll have here on Saturday the eighteenth, and you’ll hear ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Thirteenth Sunday In Ordinary Time, Year B- Reach Out And Touch Him!

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on May 25, 2024
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    What does it feel like to touch Jesus’ clothes? What does it feel like to have power come out from you?

    Our Gospel today is about two people who came to Jesus for help with a medical problem. “My left arm hurt me,” said a senior citizen, “and so did my right foot, my neck and my back. Then I went to the doctor and he tapped my knee with a little hammer.” “So how are you now?” asked a friend. “Now ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Must Leaders Always Disappoint?

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Nov 22, 2023
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    As we end this year of grace, we can confidently face the future, even if we never have a really good king or president or prime minister in our earthly life.

    Christ the King 2023 I have pretty strong memories of the Feast of Christ the King during my elementary years at a Catholic boys’ school. My parents would see me dressed up in my school uniform, which was styled like a U.S. Army class A uniform from WW2, but with maroon dyes, and the whole school ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

  • Ed Wood avatar

    Jesus, The Water Of Life

    Contributed by Ed Wood on Jul 15, 2008
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    A message about how Jesus is everything we need to live in today’s world.

    JESUS, THE WATER OF LIFE John 7:37 INTRO: Water is one of the most important substances known to man. Without it, all life would soon cease to exist. Man’s blood is composed of mostly water. Over 90% of the human body is water. Jesus ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Communion - Open, Closed, Or Cracked? Series

    Contributed by Michael Stark on Nov 7, 2020
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    Is the Communion Meal Open to all who profess Christ? Or is it overseen by the congregation hosting the meal and thus restricted to those who are in open fellowship with the assembly? The message is a study of this controversial question.

    “In the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse. For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part, for there must be factions among you in ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Dennis Selfridge avatar

    Are We Sharing In The Lord's Supper Without Meaning To Our Spiritual Being?

    Contributed by Dennis Selfridge on Nov 1, 2002
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    How to prepare in taking the Lord’s Supper.

    Introduction: HOW TO CATCH A MONKEY------ Native hunters in the jungles of Africa; have a clever way of trapping monkeys. They slice a coconut in two, hollow it out, and in one half of the shell cut a hole just big enough for a monkey’s hand to pass through. Then they place an orange in the other ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

  • W Pat Cunningham avatar

    Manifesting The Real Presence

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jun 9, 2009
    based on 8 ratings
     | 4,455 views

    The change in the bread and wine is not physically manifest; that means we have to show the change in our lives.

    Feast of Corpus Christi 14 June 2009 Urgent and important truths are often expressed in two words: heart attack, new-improved, te amo, you’re fired. The words have impact because they are engaging and brief. They grab our attention and focus it on the reality. They make us aware of some ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

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    Maundy Thursday

    Contributed by David Trexler on Mar 21, 2008
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     | 8,878 views

    I smell bread!

    Sermon for Maundy Thursday March 20th 2008 I own every single episode of Mash of video-tape and have seen each one of them. For those who don’t understand what I’m talking about, the 70’s sitcom is about a group of doctors and nurses trying to make sense of their assignment to a medical unit ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Communion Revisited

    Contributed by Martin Wiles on Apr 13, 2012
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    A doctrinal examination of the Lord's Supper.

    A. It is said Jesus and some of his followers must have been Southern since they used the word Supper instead of Dinner when referring to the Lord’s Supper. B. There has been a great deal of misunderstanding about the Lord’s Supper or Communion throughout church history with several ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • W Pat Cunningham avatar

    Against His Own Self-Interest Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jan 7, 2012
     | 2,927 views

    God loved us so much that He acted against His own best self-interest, by becoming human. In doing this, He exactly contradicted the secular world's view of leadership and government.

    Epiphany 2012 Against His Own Self-Interest Spirit of the Liturgy One of the insights that Pope Benedict has shared with us over the past few years continually comes to mind when I read the Gospels. It is like a unifying theme of the Scriptures. God loves us so much that he does things for us ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

  • W Pat Cunningham avatar

    The Twin Command, The Family And The Synod

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Oct 14, 2014
     | 2,201 views

    The family is in trouble, but the Holy Spirit is acting in our day, especially through the Synod on the Family, to restore it.

    Thirtieth Sunday in Course 2014 The Law of Love The best description of the kind of love commanded by Jesus may have been given nine hundred years ago by St. Thomas Aquinas. He said, “To love anyone is nothing else than to wish that person well, to want what is good for them.” But ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic