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Boxing and the Cool Halls of Academe – Professor Gordon Marino

“Know thyself” was the Socratic dictum, but Tyler Durden, the protagonist in the movie Fight Club,asks, “How much can you know about yourself if you’ve never been in a fight?” Although trainers of the bruising art wince at the notion that … Continue reading

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Fighting Back Against Identity Theft

Every day I receive emails supposedly sent out from fatherdave.org, and sometimes they even have ‘a message from the team at fatherdave.org’, embedded in the email body! Some days I get hundreds of these, and if I’m receiving hundreds, there … Continue reading

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The Wounds of Jesus. (A sermon on John 20:19-29)

It was the evening of the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked because they were afraid of the Jews. Jesus came and stood among them. He said to … Continue reading

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Jesus Shares his Scars. (A sermon on John 20:24-29)

Thomas, one of the twelve, who was called the Twin, wasn’t with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples kept telling him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he told them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his … Continue reading

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There’s a Place for Everybody (a Sermon on 1 Corinthians 12:1-11)

“Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed … I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God ever says “Let Jesus be cursed!” and no one can … Continue reading

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Jesus is the Answer… Not Always (a Sermon on Acts 17:22-31)

“Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols.” (Acts 17:16) Ange and I have been to Athens, as I suspect many of you … Continue reading

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The Wounds Endure (A Sermon on John 20:19-29)

On the evening of that day, the Sunday, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When he had said this, … Continue reading

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Following Jesus is an Adventure (An Easter Sermon on Luke 24)

But on first day of the week, at dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in they did not find the … Continue reading

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There’s no Marriage in Heaven! (Luke 20:27-38)

There came to him some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, and they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man … Continue reading

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