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Sermon - Trinity XIII, 2026 - 2 Chronicles 28:8-15

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The Good Samaritan, Joseph Highmore, 1744   God’s People are Those Who Have Faith in Him We typically think my people are those who are like me externally History of the two kingdoms The Faithful Remnant of Samaria was more faithful than Judah We are God’s people through faith The lawyer asked Jesus: “ Who is my neighbor? ” That’s another way of asking: “Who are my people?” We ask this question because like prefers like and we want to love those people who are like us more than we love those who are not like us. This is a generally true principle in many facets of life. We do this in mostly playful ways with sports, where we greatly prefer our team which we identify with and we do not like the rival teams. This happens more seriously between countries, sometimes even to the point of war. This happens with some seriousness between political parties, sometimes leading to political assassinations. This happens in families when one family member defends another even through criminal be...
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Sermon - St. Timothy 2021 - 1 Timothy 6:11-16

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  Today in the life of the church we remember the pastor, bishop, confessor, and martyr, St. Timothy. Timothy was born in Lystra to parents of mixed ethnicities and religions. His father was a Greek gentile and his mother Eunice was a Jew converted to Christianity. God be praised for Eunice who taught the faith to her son in spite of her husband’s unbelief. While St. Paul was in Lystra, preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ, he met Timothy and took him under his tutelage to train him up to be a pastor in Christ’s church. Thus the letters bearing Timothy’s name were written by St. Paul to St. Timothy as instruction and encouragement to a young pastor. These letters largely focus on the responsibilities given to pastors, which is primarily to be engaged in the public reading of scripture and teaching. To this day, men preparing to be pastors still study the epistles to Timothy, and are thus primarily engaged in the public reading of scripture and teaching the faith. According to tradi...
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