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This sermon asks what it means that “you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour,” as we hear that “faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”
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This sermon explores how the encounter with Jesus by the blind Bartimeaus breaks through the drudgery of chronos time and reveals an outcome that occasionally seems possible in the haze of kairos time with the help of a spiritual autobiography tool.
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A sermon that explores how hope brings forth belief and builds faith with a look at the gift the 10 disciples of Jesus gave a distraught Thomas.
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Text of the sermon preached By The Very Reverend William Carl Thomas The Seventh Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 10 Year B) July 15, 2012 At Saint Matthews Episcopal Church, Charleston West Virginia Click here to listen to the sermon. O…
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