I didn’t realize until just the day before I was to wear my camouflage stole while preaching and leading worship on the Sunday before Veterans Day, that my sermon had a deeper meaning for me.
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Category: On Reflection, Stories
Tags: Apostle Paul, Armistice Day, Enough, Episcopal, FDR, Four Freedoms, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Freedom from fear, Freedom from want, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Great War, Jesus, Military Chaplain, Norman Rockwell, Normandy, pilgrimage, Saving Private Ryan, sermon, Thessalonians, Veterans Day, War to end all wars, we’re not going to take this anymore, World War I
This sermon wonders as we approach Veterans Day how the words the Apostle Paul wrote to the Thessalonians inspire those who find themselves in harm’s way defending what President Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke of during World War Two as freedom of speech, of worship, from want, and from fearas I prepare for my own pilgrimage to the beaches of Normandy.
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Category: Sermons
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